Teach Us to Pray
By Charles and Cora
Fillmore
UNITY SCHOOL OF CHRISTIANITY
KANSAS CITY 6, MISSOURI
1946
This is a standard Unity book,
which first appeared in 1941.
FOREWORD
When Jesus’ disciples asked Him to teach them
how to pray He warned them against making a dis-
play o£ their praying in order to be seen of men.
They should retire to their “inner chamber” and
pray to the Father who sees in secret and rewards
openly. Then He said, “After this manner therefore
pray.” The Lord’s Prayer was given as a sample:
not to be followed literally. It is a petition according
to the American revision; but according to Fenton’s
translation it is a series of affirmations^ as follows:
“Our Father in the Fleavens; Your Name must be
being hallowed;
“Your kingdom must be being restored ;
“Your will must be being done, both in Heaven
and upon the Earth.
“Give us to-4ay our to-morrow's bread;
“And forgive us our faults, as we forgive those
offending us, for You would not lead us into temp-
tation, but deliver us from its evil.”
As in all matters where we seek divine help we are
free to use any words we choose or no words at all.
I “Prayer is the soul’s sincere desire,
Uttered or unexpressed.”
Prayer in man is a conscious expression of the up-
ward trend of nature found everywhere. So every
; impulse or desire of the soul for life, love, light, is
a prayer.
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Job gave a prayer formula when he said, "Thou
shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established
unto thee.”
Jesus put the same idea in these words: "What-
soever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do.”
All growth and unfoldment from atom to sun is
based upon this law of soul urge.
What you earnestly desire and persistently affirm
will be yours, if you "faint not.”
When we frame our desires in sound words and
place them before our indwelling Lord, we are using
intelligently tlie supreme law of God in bringing
into manifestation that which He has implanted in
us.
A prayer without desire in it, a prayer without
sincerity in it, a prayer without soul in it, a prayer
without Spirit in it is a fruitless prayer.
But above all practice the presence of God in
prayer. Divine Mind has given us all potentialities,
in prayer we recognize it as the source of these, and
with a right understanding of our relation to it our
soul grows great with infinite capacity, all potential-
ity. "With God all things are possible,” "All things
whatsoever the Father hath are mine.”
We have been so persistently taught that prayer
consists in asking God for some human need that
we have lost sight of our spiritual identity and have
become a race of praying beggars. God is Spirit in
Whom we "live, and move, and have our being.”
We are the offspring of this Spirit and can make
f conscious contact with it by turning our attention
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away from material things and thinking about Spirit.
As we practice this kind of prayer our innate Spirit
showers its life energies into our conscious mind and
a great soul expansion follows.
Jesus described this in the following words:
"But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thine
inner chamber, and having shut thy door, pray to thy
Father who is in secret, and thy Father who seeth in
secret shall recompense thee.”
This "inner chamber” of the soul has been vari-
ously named by Scripture writers. It is called the
"secret place of the Most High” and the “holy of
holies,” and Jesus named it "the Father ... in me”
and "the kingdom of God . . . within you.” What
we need to know above all is that there is a place
within our soul where we can consciously meet God
and receive a flood of new life into not only our
mind but also our body.
, This understanding shows us that prayer is more
i than asking God for help in this physical world; it
^ is in its highest sense the opening up in our soul
: of an innate spiritual umbilical cord that connects
us with the Holy Mother, from whom we can receive
' a perpetual flow of life. This is the beginning of
'eternal life for both soul and body, the essential
' teaching of Jesus, whidi He demonstrated in over-
coming death.
We have earnestly sought to know and tell others
how to pray, and this book is our very best exposition
of the subject. Language has not yet been invented
to tell all the wonders that we have found since we
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began opening our minds to the Spirit in prayer.
We have discovered enough to convince us that the
body can be so charged with spiritual life through
prayer that it will overcome death, as promised by
Jesus Christ.
Do not enlarge the defects of this book until they
darken its truths, but accept the urge to begin the
practice of prayer and through it make contact with
the source of your being. Thus you will prove that,
as Job wisely taught,
'’There is a spirit in man,
And the breath of the Almighty giveth them under-
standing."
Foreword - - - - - - - - - - 3
The God to Wliom We Pray - - - * “ - 11
True Prayer - - - - - - - - - 16
Intellectual Silence and Spiritual Silence - - - 22
Healing through tlie Prayer of Faith - - - - 27
Prosperity through Prayer 33
Contacting Spiritual Substance 37
Joyous Prayer 43
How to Handle the Psychic Forces of Consciousness - 47
Spiritual Unfoldment Makes Man Master - - 55
Fulfillment 60
Unfoldment - - 66
Thought Images 70
Tlie Spoken Word 73
Thou Shalt Decree 77
Be Strong in the Lord 80
Face to Face with God 83
Not Magic but Law - - - - • - - 86
Spiritual Soul Therapy - - - - - - - 90
Health and Prosperity - - ^ . 93
Tlioughts Are Things - - 96
The Supermind - - > •' - - - - - 100
Cheerfulness Heals - - - 104
Love Harmoni2es - - - - - - - -107
Casting Out Fear 112
Spiritual Hearing 116
Light of Life lip
Thought Substance - - 122
Intensified Zeal 126
The Unreality of Error 129
Joy Radiates Health 132
"Selah!” ... - I35
Spiritualizing the Intellect 138
The Sevenfold Cleansing 148
Prayer and Faith 157
The Healing Word 164
Six-Day Prayer Treatments 175
Questions I93
TEACH US TO PRAY
Earth's crammed with heaven,
And every common bush afire with God;
But only he who sees takes off his shoes,
The rest sit round it and pluck blackberries.
— ^Elizabeth Browning
O MNIPRESENCE, omniscience, omnipotence are
verities o£ Being and are facts of existence.
The mind of God, creative Mind, is per-
petually moving upon siipermind ideas and through
them bringing man and the universe into existence.
Creative Mind is everywhere present; yet while it
is within the mind of man it lies beyond the con-
sciousness of sense.
Omnipresence is that spiritual realm which can be
penetrated only through the most highly acceler-
ated mind action, as in prayer. Thus in unfolding
this inner kingdom we are dealing with a reality be-
yond the ordinary comprehension of man.
To the superbly tuned mind and brain of Jesus
Divine Mind was a soil eager with vibrant life and
light and substance, which He used to produce the
finest of materials for both character and body
building.
Spiritual character building is from within out-
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ward. Spiritual character lives in man; it is what
God has engraved on man’s soul, ready for develop-
ment through man’s spiritual efforts. It is a reserve
force of organized victory over carnality.
Man builds spiritual character by consciously func-
tioning in God-Mind, where, laying hold of spiritual
ideas, through Christ he realizes the truth they con-
tain; and as he thus weaves them into his soul con-
sciousness they become a part of his very nature.
Our most effective prayers are those in which we
rise above all consciousness of time and space. In
this state of mind we automatically contact the Spirit
of God. Indeed when we elevate our consciousness
to that of Jesus Christ, the God presence becomes
as meaningful to us as it was to Him. It is in this
state of at-one-ment that we truly become aware of
His sublimity and power.
”1 go to prepare a place for you.” By getting ac-
quainted with the one Mind as integral substance,
we move with it and it moves with us, and thus are
established within us new spiritual states of con-
sciousness, a "place” where we are aware of the
God presence as reality.
Jesus said; "My Father is the husbandman.” "I
am the true vine.” "Ye are the branches.” "As the
branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in
the vine; so neither can ye, except ye abide in me.”
, "Every branch in me that beareth not fruit, he
taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit,
he cleanseth it, that it may bear more fruit.”
In this Scripture Jesus is revealing to us that
THE GOD TO WHOM WE PRAY
through Him we are bom anew, born of God, and
that through Him we may be consciously attached
to God — as the branch is attached to the tree — so
that we may not wither and be cast away.
Through Christ we are consciously attached to the
parent stem. It behooves us to retain this attachment
so that we may go forward in spiritual unfoldment
and be crowned with eternal life.
Many good people think that God is a person
located in a place in the skies called heaven. They
pray to Him for what they want and are satisfied.
This is the prayer of the primitive, personal man,
and it meets his needs; but this is not direct com-
munion of. the Father and the Son, the communion
with reference to which Jesus said, "I and the Father
:are one.” We must have this more intimate ac-
quaintanceship or communion with creative Mind
if we are in all ways to do His will.
God presence establishes us in ideas of honesty,
i strength, intelligence, spiritual manhood, perfect
i womanhood, all needed factors in the unfoldment
i of the redeemed man, all builders of the indestruct-
' ible body temple.
Thus we must understand the nature of the God
to whom we pray and awaken in ourselves that divine
i nature through which we effect our union with God.
God is power; man is powerful. God is wisdom:
man is wise. God is substance: man is form and
shape. God is love; man is loving. God is life: man
; is the living- God is mind: man is the thinker. God
is truth: man is truthful.
TEACH US TO PBAY
Many people pray to God in the same manner
as they talk to some distant friend over the tele-
phone. We talk too much about God, too much as
though He were a third person in the God-man
relationship instead of the first. It is unthinkable
that the Creator should cause to exist a creation so
inferior to Himself as to remove it beyond the pale
of fellowship with Him. In his saner moments man
knows that this is not logical or true. It is man's
exalted ideas of God and his disparaging ideas of
himself that have built the mental wail that sepa-
rates them.
I In our prayers we must meet God face to face and
i realize that we are getting that inner assurance
Which is the real answer to our petitions.
A minister, after twenty years of faith preaching,
once was persuaded by a friend to try the Truth way
of prayer, the way of scientific silence. Afterwards
he confessed that when he touched God and found
Him alive he was startled.
To Jesus the God presence was an abiding flame,
a flame of life, of life everlasting that He felt in
every cell and fiber of His being, making Him more
and more alive, cleansing and purifying until He
: became every whit perfect. During our higher real-
izations of Truth we are often conscious of this
; abiding flame working in us and through us.
To Jesus God-Mind was a treasure field within
! Him in which could be found the fulfillment of
i every need He could possibly have. The Spirit of
' God in Him was constantly working, yes, steadily
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and persistently working, to transmute every natural
impulse o£ mind and soul into a spiritual reali 2 ation
of life. To Him the Spirit of God was working to
satisfy His inner craving with living substance and
intelligence, thus rounding out soul and body con-
sciousness into the perfect expression of Divine
Mind itself. What a glorious satisfaction God must
feel in His perfect Son Jesus Christ, who acknowl-
, edged His inner consciousness as one with, and as
consciously expressing, God’s will and wisdom. God
j Spirit, God-Mind, is not in any way confined or
limited; it is everywhere present. The "ether” of
science corresponds to "the kingdom of the heavens”
taught by Jesus. Light and other forms of radiant
: energy, the objective expression of the invisible
spiritual forces, compose an omnipresent world more
' marvelous than the old-time heaven. All the forces
of modern scientific discovery are but parts of "the
kingdom of the heavens” described in the many
parables of Jesus. Science recognises the physical
phases of the kingdom, ignores the mental, and
utterly fails to comprehend the spiritual.
The announcement of Jesus to the obtuse Nico-
demus, "Ye mu5»t be born anew,” gives us a clew
; to the shortsightedness of physicists. They have not
developed the faculties of mind necessary to the dis-
cernment of the spiritual intelligence that moves
the physical universe, consequently they see its ma-
terial aspects only. A new school of science must be
developed in which the mind of the Spirit will be
given first place.
True Prayer
Tmth is within ourselves; it takes no rise
Prom outward things, whatever you may believe.
There is an infnost center in us all,
Where truth abides in fulness;
. . . and, to know,
'Rather consists in opening out a way
Whence tjoe imprisoned splendor may escape,
Than in effecting entry for a light
Supposed to he without.
— ^Robert Browning
\ LL DOWN the ages man has been making the
/\ spiritual effort to realize conscious union
t \ with that innermost center where Truth in
all its glory abides eternally. This realization can be
accomplished only through true prayer.
The disciples o£ Jesus earnestly importuned,
’’Lord, teach us to pray.” Today, as disciples of the
Master, we are asking of Him to be taught the way
of unifying our consciousness with God-Mind. We
would find that inner Truth which sets us free.
His instructions to the disciples were "But thou,
when thou prayest, enter into thine inner chamber,
and having shut thy door, pray to thy Father who is
in secret, and thy Father who seeth in secret shall
recompense thee.” It is difficult to improve upon
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TRUE PRAYER
this simple method. Quietip entering the inner cham-
ber within the soul, shutting the door to the external
thoughts o£ daily life, and seeking conscious union
with God is the highest form of prayer we know.
The purpose of the silence is to still the activity
of the individual thought so that the still small voice
of God may be heard. For in the silence Spirit speaks
Truth to us and just that Truth of which we stand
in need.
Prayer is man's steady ejffort to know God. There
is an intimate connecting spirit that logically unites
man and his source. This comiecting spirit is the
divine logos, the Word of God, which in truth
reveals the logic of Scripture. Because of this fact
man instinctively feels and knows whence his help
comes.
God-Mind, composed of radiant ideas, vibrant
life, glorious new inspiration, is ours to use. Since we
are the I will man in the supreme Godhead, let us
through Jesus Christ realize our spiritual importance.
Let us think deeply on the divine Logos, the Word
of God! In it is the living impetus that is bound to
vitalize the soul of man and enable him to develop
his latent powers.
When we awaken even a very slight conscious-
ness of this co-operative spirit, we become cocreators
with God, and we find we can adjust any condition
that comes into our life. Jesus was so completely
unified with God-Mind that He could claim the
words He spoke to be not His but those of the
Father dwelling within Him. J
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Through prayer we gain the intimate relationship
with God that Jesus Christ must have enjoyed when
He said, "I and the Father are one.” Jesus Christ
is our teacher and helper. In prayer what should be
our attitude, our interest, as we approach the divine
presence.? I£ we knew that right now we were about
to be ushered into the presence o£ Jesus Christ, to
what extent would our spiritual expectancy be
aroused? No doubt we should be thrilled through
and through at the mere thought. Let us £eel this
same intense interest, this same concern, as we ap-
proach the divine presence within ourselves. It will
add much to the readiness with which we receive
Truth.
Entering the Silence
When entering the silence, according to Hosea,
the command is ‘Take with you words, and return
unto Jehovah.” A£ter many centuries this instruction
still stands approved today. To the metaphysician
it means to close the eyes and ears to the without,
to go within and hold the mind steadily on the word
“Jehovali” until that word illumines the whole inner
consciousness. Then a£5rm a prayer such as “Thy
vitalizing energy floods my whole consciousness, and
I am healed.”
Think what the mighty vitalizing energy o£ God,
released through Jesus Christ, really is. Penetrate
deeper into God consciousness within you and hold
the prayer steadily until you attain spiritual realiza-
tion and the logic of your own mind is satisfied.
TRUE PRAYER
To realize an idea in the silence is to clothe it
with life, substance, and intelligence. To realize a
prayer is to actualize it. To realize it is to clothe it
with soul, to l<now there is fulfillment.
The word of prayer has in it a living seed that
is bound to impregnate the soil of the mind and
cause it to bring forth fruit after its kind.
Through Jesus Christ man has the power to re-
alize that as I AM or I am "vitalizing health" he is the
great central magnet functioning in omnipresence,
around which all the healing powers of Spirit re-
volve. He has the power to realize this truth until
the most sacred ethers respond, and he beholds him-
self as powerful, peaceful, perfect; healed through
and through. It is after this fashion that we engraft
the healing word into our very souls.
When we were in Florida a few years ago a
citrus fruit grower told us many interesting things
about the growth of his orchards. There are many
swamps in Florida. He had instructed his men to go
out into these swamps, into the muddy black waters
infested with creeping tilings, there to dig up the
wild-lemon saplings with their strong, vigorous roots,
to transplant them into well-prepared soil, and then
to graft into them buds from his prize domestic
fruit trees. Thus new trees laden with golden fruit
appeared in due time. The strong, vigorous root of
the wild lemon gave the new fruit added flavor and
quality.
Metaphysically the law is "If the root is holy,
so are the branches." At least the branches are po-^
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tentiaiiy holy. We find that the natural man is
usually physically strong and vigorous just as the
root of the wild-lemon tree is. The natural man also
struggles in a murky, negative, swampy atmosphere
without power to bring forth spiritually, just as the
wild-lemon sapling does.
But the natural man can take a word of Truth
and through "one-pointed” mind concentration can
penetrate into the invisible, can unite his conscious-
ness with the mind of God, and can hold a realizing
prayer until the truth it contains is engrafted into
his very soul. Thus just as the citrus fruit is devel-
oped through the grafting process, so man, through
the engrafted word, becomes a strong, positive spir-
itual character.
There is only one God, only one ruling power in
all the universe; and the highest avenue through
which God can express Himself is man. The hun-
gering for God that is felt by man in his soul is
really God hungering to express eternal life through
man. God is always seeking to awaken man’s very
soul to His mighty presence. He thus expands the
consciousness, offering man an opportunity more
fully and more perfectly to express Him.
There is a partial unity with Spirit and there is a
complete unity with Spirit. Whenever we wholly
merge our mind with creative Mind we meet Jesus
Christ in our consciousness, and it is when we are
in this consciousness that our prayers are fulfilled.
The ability to merge our mind into the one Mind
makes a great soul of us.
TRUE PRAYER
Every person hungers for eternal life, and in his
effort to satisfy this hunger every soul makes its own
concept of God. The ancients said that an honest
man is the noblest work of God. Ingersoll said, “An
honest God is the noblest work of man.”
In deed and in truth prayer is man’s spiritual ap-
proach to God, and effective prayer does not agonize.
Neither Jesus nor any man who has fused his soul
with the soul of God has suffered or agonized. The
suffering comes as a result of separation and the
effort to return to the consciousness of Omnipres-
ence, “my Father’s house.”
Carlyle said, “Consider the significance of silence:
it is boundless, never by meditating to be exhausted,
unspeakably profitable to thee! Cease that chaotic
hubbub, wherein thy own soul runs to waste, to
confused suicidal dislocation and stupor; out of
silence comes thy strength. Speech is silvern, silence
is golden; speech is human, silence is divine.
“Fool! thinkest thou that because no one stands
near with parchment and black lead to note thy jar-
gon, it therefore dies and is harmless ? Nothing dies,
nothing can die. No idlest word thou speakest but
is a seed cast into Time, and grows through all
eternity. The Recording Angel, consider it well, is
no fable, but the truest of truths; the paper tab-
lets thou canst burn; of the 'iron leaf’ there is no
burning.”
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Intellectual Silence and Spiritual Silence
I T IS man’s concept o£ God tliat makes prayer in-
tellectual or spiritual. There is a vast difference
between mere intellectual silence and that con-
structive silence which always gives the victory within
the soul. The intellectual silence, which is limited in
its power, is the silence where one’s whole attention
is fixed on the intellect.
Herbert Spencer once said that he would gladly
turn his life over to anyone who would live it for
him and relieve him of its burdens. This no doubt
can be said of hundreds of other weary ones. It re-
veals however the fact that man lacks the true vision
of life and is not living it as God intended. Man
should lift his eyes "unto the hills, from whence
cometh” his help. He should dwell much on the
truths taught by Jesus Christ and make them a part
of his very nature.
Jesus ushered into the race consciousness a
thought atmosphere that we contact in the silence by
just affirming in spirit and in truth the name "Jesus
Christ.” There is true magic in this name.
When He said, "Come unto me, all ye that labor
and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest,” He
was mentally freeing man from his many trials and
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tribulations, and leading him into the broad highway
o£ spiritual freedom, and joy, and abundance. To
accept Jesus Christ as Saviour means to take His
way of thinking and acting and make it ours.
There is a popular teaching that just accepting
Jesus Christ as one’s Saviour will set into operation
a spiritual magic that will save the soul from all
past and future sins. The word "magic” implies
accomplishing something with the assistance of the
supernatural. We find that in deed and in truth there
is magic in adopting the way of life taught by Jesus.
But this is not mysterious to those who study the
transforming power of thoughts and words. It is all
contained in the formula stated by Paul "Be ye trans-
formed by the renewing of your mind.” Instead of
doubting, distrusting, and hating man, which is the
fruit of the intellect, Jesus taught us to love man
with all our mind, soul, and strength. Instead of
fighting life and straggling to compete with millions
of others in the same foolish war, as the intellectual
man does, Jesus taught man to co-operate. Instead
of wasting energy in tearing down, Jesus taught
man to conserve his energy in building up. Jesus does
not load on man’s back all the burdens of humanity;
in fact He shows humanity how to love life, how to
love the Author of life, and how to love life’s ac-
tivities. In this state of consciousness man automat-
ically drops the burdens of the intellect and enters
into the freedom of real living. In the past the in-
tellect has thought its power supreme. But while it
is a wonderful faculty, it is in truth the tool of Spirit,
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and as siidi it needs disctpline if it is to be able to
perform its perfect work.
The intellect is always busy, jumping from one
thing to another, much of the time dwelling on the
daily routine of the workaday world or on condi-
tions in the world at large. The first step in scien-
tific silence is simply to still these outer intellectual
thoughts so that the consciousness may become sub-
servient to the Spirit within.
In I Peter 2:2 we read, “As newborn babes, long
for the spiritual milk which is without guile, that
ye may grow thereby unto salvation.” Those who are
seeking and receiving spiritual understanding are
born anew every day, and every day the milk of the
spiritual word continues to feed and nourish the soul.
Moses was commanded by Jehovah to make all
things after the pattern shown him on the mount.
In the heavens of the mind, the spiritual center in
the crown of the head, the Lord keeps ever before
man life’s perfect pattern. But man must have the
spiritual ability to discern this pattern if he is to
fulfill the requirements of scientific prayer.
By quieting the mental man, by passing through
the discipline of intellectual silence, man arrives
at the very threshold of God’s workshop, the thresh-
old of Being. As he passes into the inner chamber
he finds he is entering the holy of holies, where
noiselessly, silently a mighty work is always going
on but where there is "neither hammer nor axe nor
any tool of iron heard.” God works in the stillness.
As man comes into the presence of God with his
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prayer in the form of an aJSirmation of Truth, hold-
ing the prayer steadily in mind and consciously
unifying his mind with the mind of God, he is aware
only of the soundlessness of God’s word as it weaves
itself in and out through the whole soul and body
consciousness, illumining, redeeming, and restoring
him according to his faith and trust, according to his
strength and power to receive. This is quite dijfferent
from mere intellectual silence that does not know
the way of spiritual unfoldment. In this spiritual
silence man’s reali2ation is established in his heart
and he has the assurance that his prayer is answered
and that the law of demonstration brings forth the
fruit.
The realization is not only written in the soul but
in the intellect, whose seat of action is in the front
forehead. The intellect always perceives what has
taken place within and has power to retain its per-
ception and to express itself accordingly. Thus the
intellect serves Spirit, and as it unfolds it becomes
more and more like Spirit, and it becomes in deed
and in truth the instrument of God.
Carlyle must have had an intellectual understand-
ing as well as a spiritual understanding of divine
law when he wrote, referring to the kingdom within:
"Art not thou the living government of God? O
Heaven, is it not in very deed He then that ever
speaks through thee— that lives and loves in thee —
that lives and loves in me?”
Constructive thought force is a great and mighty
power, but when it is realized in the silence it be-
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comes the one and only power in all the eartii. The
understanding of this made Jesus Christ an adept
in tile domain of scientific prayer.
"The God that made the world and all things
therein, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth
not in temples made with hands.” Jesus was born
down among the animals in the manger at Beth-
lehem. There is a truth symbolized in this; for not
only the intellect in man is to be redeemed through
prayer but also the body; even every animal pro-
pensity must be redeemed and lifted up through
Jesus Christ. "In the name of Jesus every knee should
bow . . . and . . . every tongue should confess
that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the
Father.”
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Healing through the Prayer of Faith
Is any among you suffering? let him pray. Is
any cheerful? let him sing praise. Is any among
you sick? let him call for the elders of the
church; and let them pray over him, anointing
him with oil in the name of the Lord: and the
prayer of faith shall save him that is sick, and
the Lord shall raise him up . — ^James 5:13.
T his is a veiy dej&nite and wonderful promise.
According to the record, it was undoubtedly
acted upon by the disciples and proved to be
very effective for hundreds of years. That this mighty
promise still stands is proved by unnumbered thou-
sands of Jesus Christ’s followers today. Faith healing
through prayer has become a practice founded on
principles that never fail when rightly applied. Those
who seek the kingdom of God and His righteous-
ness are having all things added, as promised. When
we "take with us words" and attempt to go into
God’s presence, our faith in Him is the power that
swings wide open the gate that leads into the inner
kingdom.
But in order to keep the gate ajar it is a daily
necessity to withdraw into this deep stillness of the
soul. Listen first to the innate voice of faith; then
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through the centers within the subconsciousness you
can appropriate the life, substance, and intelligence
of Being.
Man builds up an enduring state of faith by re-
peated reali2ations of Truth, The illumination thus
gained comes forth in man as spiritual understand-
ing expressed in sound words.
Faith draws upon substance. Dynamic, creative,
transforming power is roused to spiritual action
when man affirms his unity with Almightiness and
his undaunted faith in its power.
"Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live; and so
Jehovah, the God of hosts, will be with you, as ye
say.” "Concerning the works of my hands, command
ye me.”
Man must not only be submissive and obedient to
the divine law; he must also realize that he is the
offspring of the ruler of the universe.
When asking the Father for that which belongs
to the Son under the divine law, man should assume
the power and dignity of the Prince of Peace. He
should not crawl and cringe before an imaginary
king on a throne but rather feel that he is the image
of an invisible being who has created him to repre-
sent His mightiness as well as His loving-kindness.
We should affirm with conviction those mighty
words uttered by Jesus Christ: "All authority hath
been given unto me in heaven and on earth.”
The prayer of faith is not supplication, a begging
God to give things to man. Prayer at its highest is
the entry of the ego through faith into a realm of
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mind forces that when rightly contacted change the
character of every cell in brain and body. One who
has mastered even the primary technique of prayer
has made contact with the spiritual ethers that con-
nect ail minds, high and low, and by means of which
great reforms for the good of man can be projected
into the world’s thought ether.
When Jesus prayed, sometimes the whole night
long, He did not plead with God over and over to
do what He asked. Through positive faith Jesus was
laying hold of new ideas, which through His spiritual
understanding He incorporated into His conscious-
ness, which included both soul and body. Through
this mental process He became a living demonstra-
tion of spiritual man.
Today Jesus Christ is our helper and teacher.
Every man when he prays should recognize and take
advantage of this truth. He can profit much by
realizing that the same Spirit is in him that was in
Jesus, who became the Christ. Paul wrote, "But if the
Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead
dwelleth in you, he that raised up Christ Jesus from
the dead shall give life also to your mortal bodies
through his Spirit that dwelleth in you.”
Jesus is teaching us today that to pray effectively
we must believe and know that there is a dispenser
of the thing asked for and that by reaciiing out in
prayer we can receive it from the one great source.
This is truly the prayer of faith. "All things whatso-
ever ye pray and ask for, believe that ye receive
them, and ye shall have them.”
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Faith, the conviction of a higher providing source,
is based upon spiritual logic or innate reason and on
the certainty that an all-wise and all-powerful Cre-
ator’s plan includes necessary provision for His off-
spring. Among even the primitive forms of nature
this providing law is active. The insect stores food
in the egg for the sustenance of its progeny. When
man emerges from his animal consciousness and
feels within him the stirring of Spirit, he finds that
it is supremely logical and true that Spirit has pro-
vided for his supply and support.
When we have achieved spiritual realization of
our prayer and our innermost soul is satisfied, we
have the assurance that the thing is accomplished
in Spirit and must become manifest.
We may continue in our realization of faith until
the whole consciousness responds and the instan-
taneous demonstration takes place.
Spiritual truth, psychology, and science tell us
that visible things come from the invisible and are
dependent upon the unseen for their existence. The
sense mind cannot conceive of this.
"But there is a spirit in man,
And the breath of the Almighty giveth them un-
derstanding.”
Before man can fully appreciate and work the spir-
itual law, he must cultivate a consciousness of re-
ality. When he does this, he finds he is automatically
working with God, through Jesus Christ, and that
he can say with Jesus, ‘'My Father worketh even
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until now, and I work.”
Prayer is impotent and unfruitful when the one
who prays is without the firm belief that his peti-
tions are answered. When man turns wholeheartedly
to God, the prayer of faith brings forth abundantly.
Healing currents of life are freed and flow into and
through soul and body, healing, redeeming, uplifting
the whole man. Since the prayer of faith is the activ-
ity of divine love, let us pray without ceasing, know-
ing that God hears and grants our petitions.
Truly the Lord is in the midst of us. When we
turn toward the omnipresent light of Spirit in faith,
our eyes are opened to the astonishing fact that this
seemingly material body and these temporal sur-
roundings conceal the immanent God. We come to
understand what Jacob meant when he said, "How
dreadful is this place! this is none other than the
house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.”
In prayer attention is the concentration of the
mind upon a statement of Truth. Attention is focal-
izing the I AM or inner entity upon a word of
prayer, until the inner meaning is realized and the
soul is aware of a definite spiritual uplift. As a lens
focalizes the sun’s rays at a given point — and
we know how intense that point of light may be-
come— -so concentration focalizes the mind on a
single idea until it becomes manifest and objective.
In concentration the Holy Spirit works through
the divine Mother substance to bring forth the fruits
of Divine Mind. The Holy Spirit is the teacher.
The teacher and the student use the same principles;
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but the teacher arouses and inspires the student to
greater achievement The Holy Spirit today is urging
us to greater spiritual effort.
When we direct the mental powers upon a defi-
nite idea, faith plays its part; it is involved in con-
centration. As we give attention to the idea through
one-pointed mind concentration, we break into a
realm of finer mind activity, called faith or the fire
of Spirit. Thus faith opens the door into an inner
consciousness, where we hold the word steadily in
mind until the spiritual ethers respond to our word.
Earnest, steady, and continued attention along this
line is bound to bring forth the fruits of the Spirit
in abundant measure. A steady, unwavering devo-
tion of heart and principle to Spirit develops in us
supermind qualities.
Prosperity through Prayer
'T ow THERE cried a certain woman of the
wives of the sons of the prophets unto
1 ^ Elisha, saying, Thy servant my husband
is dead; and thou knowest that thy servant did fear
Jehovah: and the creditor is come to take unto him
my two children to be bondmen. And Elisha said
unto her, What shall I do for thee? tell me; what
hast thou in the house? And she said, Thy hand-
maid hath not anything in the house, save a pot of
oil. Then he said, Go, borrow thee vessels abroad of
all thy neighbors, even empty vessels; borrow not
a few. And thou shalt go in, and shut the door upon
thee and upon thy sons, and pour out into all those
vessels; and thou shalt set aside that which is full.
So she went from him, and shut the door upon her
and upon her sons; they brought vessels to her,
and she poured out. And it came to pass, when the
vessels were full, that she said unto her son, Bring
me yet a vessel. And he said unto her, There is not
a vessel more. And the oil stayed. Then she came
and told the man of God. And he said. Go, sell the
oil, and pay thy debt, and live thou and thy sons
of the rest.”
The story of Elisha and the little pot of oil that
at his command and with her co-operation filled all
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the vessels in her house and also those of all her
neighbors so that she had enough oil to pay all her
debts, free her children from bondage, and provide
a living for herself and her sons, reveals the working
of a mighty law.
Metaphysically the meaning of the name Elisha is
"God is a savior; God of deliverance; to whom
God gives victory; God is rich.” The widow typifies
a belief in lack, a thought or a line of thought in
consciousness that has fallen away from that inner
union with the divine source (husband) and as a
result is suffering from lack of supply.
Elisha (meaning also "God is rich”) showed this
woman how to shut the door and realize that her
supply came from within. Then he revealed to her
how to pour out the oil (love) of plenty, and how
it would prove a permanent supply. Any thought
is a prayer in which we realize that our desires, God
directed, are answered the very moment they are
expressed.
Christian metaphysicians find that words that ex-
press thanks, gratitude, and praise, release energies
of mind and spirit, and their use is usually fol-
lowed by effects so pronounced that they are quickly
identified with the originating words, effect being
merged in cause.
Let your words of praise and blessing be to Spirit
and the increase will be even greater than it is when
they are addressed to man. The resources of Spirit
are beyond our highest flights of imagination. You
can praise a weak body into strength; a fearful
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heart into peace and trust; shattered nerves into
poise and power; a failing business into prosperity
and success; want and insufficiency into supply and
support.
Do not beg in your prayers, but praise and give
thanks for the now self-manifesting God of abun-
dance fulfilling every desire of your heart.
Make a "date” daily with God and keep it. He
will never fail you. Some persons are overtimid
about their religion. They fear ridicule and misun-
derstanding. A certain banker had established a
certain time each day for going into the silence to
pray. His bank, which was located in a country town,
needed to borrow what it considered a large sum
of money, and he was in New York City negotiating
for the loan, but without apparent success. However
he was strong in the silence and trusted God re-
gardless of appearances. While he was talking the
matter of the loan over with tlie New York City
banker his "silence hour” approached, and our
country banker was puzzled what to do. He finally
decided to be honest with God, and in the midst of
the apparently unfavorable discussion in regard to
the loan, he quietly announced that he always de-
voted a few moments to prayer at that hour and
begged to be excused.
The face of the city banker at once lighted up.
He instantly recognized tliat this country friend had
something that he did not have: he was poised,
peaceful, trustful in the face of defeat. So the city
banker hesitatingly replied that he also was in the
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habit of observing a daily moment of prayer and
that he would gladly join him. Then and there they
entered the silence together and had a high realiza-
tion of God’s power to supply and to bless. At the
■conclusion of their prayer session the city banker
; informed the country banker that he was satisfied
that his securities were good and that the loan would
be made without delay.
' Emerson’s inspiration or comment on prayer was
"Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life
from the highest point of view. Prayer is the solilo-
quy of a beholding and jubilant soul. It is the Spirit
of God pronouncing His works good. But prayer as
a means of effecting a private end is theft and
meanness. It presupposes dualism and not unity in
nature and consciousness.. As soon as a man is at
one with God he does not beg. He then sees prayer
i in all action.’^
Father Almighty! We bow before Thine in-
finite goodness, and invoke in prayer Thine all-
merciful presence of love.
We ask, and as we ask we give thanks that
Thy power and presence are here in love and
that we are tightly held in Thine all-embracing
arms, where our every need is supplied and
where we shall ever rest secure from all the
buffets of the world.
Open to US the inner chambers of peace and
harmony, which divinely belong to us as Thy
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PROSPERITY THROUGH PRAYER
We come as IhtU children into the sacred
and trustful presence of Thy love, knowing full
'Well that only love can draw and hold us in
peace and harmony and prosperity.
Every fear falls away as we enter into Thee
and Thy glory of love and as we bask m the
sunshine of love, Thy love, Thy never-failing
Contacting Spiritual Substance
M an must build a perfect soul structure with
faculties capable of always producing abun-
dantly for both his spiritual and his mate-
rial welfare.
In order to accomplish this man must become
familiar with what the metaphysician terms om-
nipresent Spirit substance, which is visible only to
mind and the nature of which is to sustain and
enrich whatever idea is projected into it.
This Spirit substance stands back of and gives
support to man’s every thought and word. It is
ready to provide food for all living creatures every-
where.
Today man is learning consciously to make union
with this invisible spiritual thought stuff and ap-
propriate and manifest it. Our supply and support
is governed by our familiarity with substance and
by our mental hold upon it.
Spiritual substance is the source of all material
wealth and cannot suffer loss or destruction by
human thought. It is always with us, ready to be
used and to make potent and fertile both the soul
and the body consciousness. In this connection Jesus
said, *'1 have meat to eat that ye know not.”
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Just as God has been from the beginning so Spirit
substance has been from the beginning. This sub-
stance is in fact the Mother side of God, the fem-
inine element in God's nature. It is the universal
medium in which we plant ail ideas of supply and
support.
Just as the earth is the universal matrix in which
all vegetation develops so this invisible Spirit sub-
stance is the universal matrix in which ideas of pros-
perity germinate and grow and bring forth accord-
ing to our faith and trust. The "dust of the ground"
spoken of in Genesis represents the radiant sub-
stance, the fruit of the initial thought in the ex-
pression of the substance idea. Under the induence
of man’s mind radiant Spirit substance continues
to be manifested in form and shape. For example,
the sunshine is incorporated in the products of the
vegetable world; these being appropliated by man
through mastication, digestion, and assimilation, it
becomes part of his body. Light and electricity are
forms of radiant substance.
Someone has said,
"The hand that rocks the cradle
Is the hand that rules the world.”
In this same way the Mother side of God may
be said to cradle our good, nurturing it into mani-
festation and producing the influences that hover
over and enrich our life. We should always bear in
mind that if we are to demonstrate we must pay
strict attention to the conservation of the spiritual
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thought stuff. I£ we are to go forward spiritually,
we must not waste our tliought stuff in idle thoughts,
in thinking thoughts of poverty, discontent, jeal-
ousy. We should positively weed out of conscious-
ness all thoughts of poverty and failure, and in
thinking or speaking of our affairs we should use
the very highest and best language at our command.
Whatever the seed word is that is implanted in
omnipresent Spirit substance, this seed word will
germinate and grow and bring forth fruit "after its
kind.’' Just as the farmer therefore selects the very
best seed corn for planting, so we must choose the
words that will bring forth the rich harvest of plenty.
We should bear in mind that God is our silent
partner and that His wisdom and strength, His
energy and skill are ours to use. We should realize
that in every soul there is undoubtedly present (as
a result of former effort) a great reservoir of radiant
Spirit substance, which is ready and eager to be
tapped and freed so that it can supply our every need.
To gain control of Spirit substance we grasp it
with our mind; that is, lay hold of the idea back of
it. Right thinking is necessary in using the mind
constructively to bring about right results.
The Father-Mother God has provided abundantly
for all. In truth, when a soul is born into the world
it brings with it faculties that, once set to work
consciously functioning in the omnipresent etheric
substance, open up channels through which imfail-
ing supply and support come to this soul. The divine-
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life idea in the awakened soul is implanted in
divine substance and brings forth a new being, the
Son of God.
The realization of the following prayer will
awaken man to the consciousness of his divine sup-
ply and support:
The idea of the one reality is quickened in
me, and 1 am alive and athrill with the one
radiant substance of Spirit.
Sometimes in demonstrating prosperity God’s mill
seemingly grinds slow. The reason is, first, that
man’s consciousness is functioning in such a thick
envelope of materiality that it is hard to get action.
And secondly, man has not yet unfolded the working
power of the word.
To overcome tliis condition man must enter the
silence and realize a prayer like this:
I am free from the clutches of inert matter.
The working power of the word is quick-
ened in me, and 1 understand the law governing
God’s abundance.
Then it is well to clinch the matter with this real-
ization:
Divine substance fiow^mjall its fullness into
my consciousness atH vm^ughane as prosperity
mto all my affairs.
God made us, and there is a vital connection be-
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tween us and God. Keeping this truth in mind makes
demonstration easy and enjoyable.
Be ye builders^ vital, doing,
Architects of life and fate,
Ever striving and preparing
For a higher, nobler state,
Not in sighing, aging, dying,
Is the measure of the man,
But in growing, building, living
Life fulfills the Master plan.
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Joyous Prayer
T here are vibrations in space that our men of
science have not yet discerned or measured.
These undiscovered quantities are related to
i the mind or soul of Being and must be apprehended
I through the unfolding in man of supermind facul-
; ties. When the trained Christian metaphysician prays
I he can, with a disciplined consciousness, make con-
i tact with these forces in the ether and through them
! gain a certain unity with the soul of Being. The
; consciousness thus attained is usually designated as
^ the Christ consciousness or the mind of the Lord
; Jesus Christ. When the union is attained an in-
crease in spiritual power is felt and one has the
assurance of the activity of spiritual principles within
of which one has had hitherto no awareness.
But no man yet knows all of life’s joys, nor will
he until he has come into the full understanding
of spiritual communion with God. No man knows
the fullness of life, nor its joys, until he has prayed
in meekness and thanksgiving and has received the
sweet, pure reali2ations of Jesus Christ. True and
lasting joy arises from within. 'The nature of the
deep inner life is revealed only to those who spir-
itually penetrate into its source.;
Would, you feed the soul on the joys of the scien-
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tific Christian? If you would you must realize them
and give thanks in prayer for the more abundant
life. Then you will find that a great subconscious
well of living water will begin to bubble up in your
soul, and you will come to know that hitherto you
have been living in the shallows of life instead of
in its mighty depths. You will be blessed with a
knowledge of the unity of all things, and a great
peace and harmony will well up within.
Man must know spiritual harmony, and therein
is the source of a great secret. Musical geniuses
say that they first hear their compositions before
they are given outer form. Poets clothe in words
and give local habitation and a name to what to the
practical mind seems airy nothings.
Pythagoras, the ancient ‘philosopher, wrote that
God was singing the universe into expression and
that the suns and planets were the musical notes on
a grand universal staff. Shakespeare in 'The Mer-
chant of Venice” had one of his characters say:
"How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank!
Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music
Creep in our ears: soft stillness and the night
Become the touches of sweet harmony.
Sit, Jessica. Look how the floor of heaven
Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold:
There’s not the smallest orb which thou behold’st
But in his motion like an angel sings.
Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubins ;
Such harmony is in immortal souls;
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But whilst this muddy vesture of decay
Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it.”
The realization of God as a great wooing, all-
knowing presence, an everywhere present sustaining
strength, wherein each soul functions and works out
its own salvation is to be established in a mighty
; stronghold that fortifies us against all adverse beliefs.
It is said that on the ocean of life a joyful soul
makes a good sailor. This is true. The strong, joyful
nature will make its way where others fall by the
! wayside. Joy, spiritual joy, is ours by divine right,
land buoys us up and urges us onward to accom-
plishment.
It is impossible to found a lasting stronghold
within on anything less than the understanding that
God is a God of joy. It is through our realization
of this truth that we drink heartily of the wine of
life. Often even during serene, yes, sober moments,
the inner man, the inner woman, is athrill with some
newborn, joyful anticipation. In prayer every high
realization that comes to us is to strengthen us for
greater achievements.
And when we pray, let us pray with a purpose.
Purpose gives life a real meaning. Purpose gives
joy and zest to living. When our eye is on the goal
we are not so easily perturbed. Purpose awakens
new trains of thought; purpose directs these trains
of thought into new fields of achievement. Really
to succeed we must have some great purpose in
mind, some goal toward which we are to work. But
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above all, we must always purpose in our heart to
achieve spirituality.
As we study the one great Presence and Power,
we come to know that there is no chapter in our
life that is such a failure but has back of it a grand
purpose, which purpose must eventually somewhere,
somehow work itself out in a most ennobling man-
ner, well pleasing in the sight of God.
How to Handle the Psychic Forces of
Consciousness
T he first step of a Truth student in handling
the psychic forces of consciousness is the same
as that in handling any other, and that is to
realize that God is the one and only power; to
declare with Byron: "There is no god but God! —
to prayer- — lo! God is great!"
The name psyche, which figures in Greek mythol-
ogy, means breath, life. Psyche is represented as
one of the three daughters of a king. These three
"daughters” are spirit, soul, and body. Psyche is the
soul in its many earthly experiences, in its failures
and its successes.
God is the same yesterday, today, and forever,
and His law is for the use of all alike, Man in-
terprets His law and operates in accord with it to
the best of his ability in his endeavor to grow and
prove his mastery over the many events that take
place in his life.
If man would become expert in handling scien-
tifically the psychical forces, he should first get a
thorough understanding of just what these forces
are, and above all he should know that like other
forces they are subservient to God’s law. The psychic
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or soul realm includes the sum total o£ conscious-
ness, all that the individual has experienced.
In analy2ing the soul realm we have first the
animal soul. The animal soul comprises all sensa-
tions and all thoughts that we entertain with refer-
ence to animal life. Through man’s thought the
animal soul forms the animal man.
The second element in the soul realm, the human
soul, is one step higher than the animal, and com-
prises all the thoughts and emotions we entertain
on the human plane of consciousness: thoughts of
family, of friends, of business associates, or per-
sonal possessions.
The third and highest element of soul is the spir-
itual. This phase of the soul is the depository of all
thoughts and aspirations we have ever had about
God and things spiritual. Here also we find a con-
sciousness that relates us to God and forms the con-
necting link between the human and the divine.
When through prayers, meditations, and good works
man has built spiritual qualities into his soul to the
point of dominance over the animal and human
natures, he is ready for the regeneration with Jesus
Christ.
It is true that through the animal and human
departments of the soul we are in sympathy with
all nature, which includes the earth, the sun, the
moon, and the stars, and as these are ail ensouled,
their reactions affect us when there is no higher
power in evidence. But there is a higher power in us
every one: Spirit. In Genesis it is stated that spir-
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itual man, the image- and-likeness man, was given
dominion over all creation. As Shakespeare aptly
says,
"The fault is not in our stars,
But in ourselves, that we are underlings.”
In our ongoing we endeavor always to bear in
mind that God is the one and only power. We must
know and realize that the great intelligence of God
works in every conceivable way to lead us into the
light, thus aiding us in avoiding error conditions.
The indwelling Christ will “neither slumber nor
sleep”; with the Holy Spirit it is teaching us the
great truth that we are “Gods in the making” and
that as such we have dominion over every thought
and condition.
When Jesus was born in the manger in Bethle-
hem the star appeared in the east and pointed the
way for the Wise Men to the spot where the young
child lay. A mighty soul had been incarnated and
had come to do a mighty work on the earth. So
great was the occasion that the whole heavenly
universe sang with joy. This to the individual means
that a speck of light shone in the east, the within,
revealing to the illumined soul what was taking
place. The star is a symbol of potentiality; it repre-
sents expanding possibilities. The saving I am had
at last made its spiritual power manifest in the
earth. But was the star seen by those who were
not spiritually illumined.^ No. They had eyes but saw
not. Only the illumined, the awakened, could per-
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ceive the star o£ Bethlehem. So the spiritual I am
is often doing a great work in the soul of a man, and
the man knows it not. This Scripture also reveals
the w'^ay in which Spirit often uses the so-called
psychic to do its bidding, to reveal its power.
Today men are breaking into the psychic realm
as never before and, not being consciously unified
with Spirit, are becoming entangled in their own
mentality, in addition to the psychic vibrations of
the whole race. Often this leads to very unpleasant
experiences.
In fact the souls of all people are being quick-
ened, and in the absence of an understanding of
Truth erratic states of mind are formed that cause
fantastic notions about many things. Persons in this
condition often become supersensitive and imagine
that they are being criticized, that others are talking
about them, and a thousand and one other things.
Very often this condition is the result of trying to
communicate with the dead through mediums and
spiritualistic seances.
There is a realm in which the souls that have left
the body are functioning feebly. Spiritualists call it
"spirit land” or "the home of the soul.” The early
Christians taught that those who had passed away
were asleep. This is not true of all persons, but
those who have lived a long, strenuous life and
are weary want rest and fall asleep. Paul said, "Be-
cause you have not discerned the Lord’s body you
have fallen asleep.” Others who have lost their
body early in life are ready for immediate action
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in reincarnation and do not find sleep necessaiy.
Eventually all souls reincarnate on the earth as
babes and in due time take up their problems where
they left oS at death. But before they do rein-
carnate they sometimes try to communicate with
their loved ones here on earth. This is never satis-
factory and leads nowhere. Persons who sit in
seances are taking a great risk. Instead of really
getting in touch with their loved ones they are apt
to make contact with psychic forces of a low order
that tend to weaken their faith in God.
Paul said, "Our wrestling is not "against flesh
and blood, but against the principalities, against
the powers, against the world rulers of this dark-
ness, against the spiritual hosts of wickedness in the
heavenly places”
Wlien a person is established in the Christ power
and dominion, he finds that Spirit often uses the
mental realm to reveal to him some message that is
of vital importance to him. Such messages are im-
parted through dreams and visions. When the soul
is still, as in sleep, the Spirit of truth throws the
message on the screen of the mind in the form of
thought pictures. One only has to read the symbols
in order to receive the message. If the message is
constructive, it is well to praise God and give thanks.
If it is of a destructive nature, take tlie message into
the silence and place it before God. Hold the
thought for light until you have the realization that
the illumination of Spirit permeates and penetrates
the whole condition. Spiritual light transforms, re-
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constructs, and makes beautiful. Joseph, the son of
Jacob, was an expert at interpreting dreams and
visions. However many of the patriarchs of old were
well versed in the art of deciphering the visions
of the night.
Again the psychic realm is the realm in which
primitive man (Adam and Eve) first functioned.
Instead of listening to the Lord they listened to the
serpent (the sense man) and learned to indulge
in sensation until it depleted divine substance. Disin-
tegration of the body followed. This is physical
death. For this cause the human family lost their
original estate in the ethereal or heavenly kingdom
and descended into earthly fleshly consciousness.
We are now, through Christ, listening to Jehovah
God, through whom we are learning the law of
life, and we are being restored to the understanding
that all the factors that enter into life are here all
the time and are ours to use. Through Jesus Christ
man has dominion. Through Jesus Christ it is pos-
sible for us to make the perfect union between
soul and body, and enter into the consciousness of
Almightiness, thus being restored to the paradise
of God from which we originally came forth.
We should not think of the psychic realm as evil
or be afraid of it. Through Jesus Christ we possess
mastery and dominion over all realms. Through our
own Christ dominion we, develop spiritual powers to
handle the psychic realm to great advantage. And
that this is a realm in which tremendous forces are
present is being discovered by the investigations of
HOW TO HANDLE THE PSYCHIC FORCES
physical science. Jesus often referred to the "king-
dom of the heavens” or the kingdom of God,
which He said was very nigh unto us and even
within us. This kingdom is above the psychic, await-
ing our appropriation of it through prayer. Jesus
told His followers that after His ascension they
were to go into the upper room in Jerusalem (a
high, peaceful state of consciousness), where the
Holy Spirit would come upon them with power.
Science says the ether possesses dynamic power be-
yond anything we can imagine. Sir Oliver Lodge
is quoted as saying that there is energy enough
in one cubic inch of ether to run a forty-horsepower
engine for forty millions of years. This is beyond
all human conception; but many of the stories that
science is telling us about the power of the ether
are fully equal to this, and if they were in the Bible
skeptics would point to them as examples of the
credulity of the Christians.
Jesus says that all power should be given to us,
which carries with it the idea of unlimited capacity.
For mastery and dominion over all conditions
affirm:
I AM THAT I AM.
Through Jesus Christ I am the master of
every realm o f consciousness in my being.
Through Jesus Christ I enter into a full and
complete understanding of how to handle all
states of consciousness to the glory of God.
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TEACH US TO PRAY
I am illumined ivith the light of Spirit , and I
bring ” every thought into captivity to the obedi-
ence of Christ.”
I commit all my works unto fehovah, and my
purposes are established.
Every plane of consciousness in me is trans-
formed by the renewing of the mind.
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spiritual Unfoldment Makes Man
Master
% CCORDING to Genesis, Elohim God planned that
/\ man, created in His image and likeness,
/ \ should have all the qualities of his Maker,
At first glance this man created in the beginning
seems the equal of God man or God son.
Further insight into the creative process however
reveals that man has a work to do in developing
his innate abilities, the “image” and “likeness.”
Following the paragraph “Let us make man in our
image, after our likeness” we read: “And let them
have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over
the birds of the heavens, and over the cattle, and
over all the earth, and over every creeping thing
that creepeth upon the earth. And God created man
in his own image, in tire image of God created he
him, male and female created he them. And God
blessed them: and God said unto them, Be fruitful,
and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue
it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and
over the birds ... and over every living thing,”
In modern language we would say that God
imaged a man like Himself who would fulfill the
law of his being when he had gained the mastery
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TEACH US TO PRAY
over certain forces in his field of activity. These
forces are symbolically described as "birds,” "fish,”
"cattle,” and "creeping things,” through which man
replenishes the earth.
The whole Bible tells of man’s experience in
striving for the mastery. In addition to the Bible,
all the history of man is a record of how the human
family has struggled to fulfill the creative ideas
implanted in them from the beginning. The "birds
of the heavens” are their high ideals, the "cattle”
or "beasts of the field” are of a low order, the "fish
of the sea” are their generated or accumulated im-
pulses, and the "creeping things” represent the
micro-organisms of modern science that are claimed
to be the cause of most diseases. It has been as-
sumed that man’s dominion was to be exercised
through aggression, through physical mastery. This
idea has instigated man to wage war and rule by
tyranny, all of which his higher thoughts tell him
is in direct violation of divine law.
Our higher reason, backed by experience, forces
us to look to another source than the physical for
a solution of the problem of "dominion.”
As the great example of one who became a mas-
ter through spiritual unfoidment we point to Jesus,
who became the Master of all masters. Jesus was
God manifest in the flesh.
Today Jesus Christ is the realized, ideal Master.
He is the full, perfect expression of the superman.
In Him "dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead
bodily.” To Jesus Christ God was a being of infinite
SPIRITUAL UNFOLDMENT MAKES MAN MASTER
goodness that He was to realize and express. So
today through Jesus Christ God is a being of in-
finite goodness that we are to realize and express.
Today the name Jesus Christ is called “Wonderful,
Counsellor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince
of Peace.” Jesus Christ is the Master, majestic yet
simple. His relation to man makes His tenderness
toward humanity exquisitely touching. When we
think of the mighty revolution that has taken place
in the consciousness of the race through His teach-
ing, we realize at least to a degree what He has done
for the race.
“He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty;
And he that ruleth his spirit, than he that taketh a
city.”
Jesus Christ ruled His own spirit. Through Jesus
Christ we are learning to rule our own spirit, to
gain tlie mastery over every word and thought, yes,
over every impulse of the whole being, not only
on the soul plane but on the physical plane as well.
His presence right in our midst is teaching us con-
trol. His presence right in our midst inspires us
with new ideas, incites us to go forward to achieve.
In the world of affairs a master is one who can
enforce obedience, but the Master of masters did
not “enforce.” Through His spiritual ability He
inspired obedience.
Jesus Christ attained mastery over sin, sickness,
death- He attained a permanent state of conscious-
ness where mortal weakness cannot enter. Emerson
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says that the measure of a master is his ability to
bring ail men around to his opinion within twenty
years. Today, as never before, two thousand years
after Jesus closed His ministry here on earth, He is
bringing men around to His opinion or rather to
His truths as never before.
But Jesus Christ is also a servant. We follow Him
because He serves best; because He bears with us
as we strive to overcome our sins — He bears our
sins with gentleness and patience. As we work m
prayer with Him, He leads us into a high state of
spiritual consciousness where we realize the allness
of God and His laws.
When Jesus was asked by a crafty lawyer to name
the greatest commandment He quickly answered that
all the Law and the Prophets could be summarized
thus; "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all
thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy
mind. This is the great and first commandment. And
a second like unto it is this, Thou shalt love thy
neighbor as thyself. On these two commandments
the whole law hangeth, and the prophets.” This is
a test, a challenge, to all those who would unfold
spiritually. This attitude of mind brings us in tune
with Divine Mind so that we are prepared to re-
ceive its blessings. When our thoughts are estab-
lished in love, a divine synchronization takes place.
Divine Mind has a fixed rate of vibration to which,
through Jesus Christ, the mind of man is synchro-
nized, just as a radio receiving set is synchronized
to the frequency of a broadcasting station. In order
SPIRITUAL UNFOLDMENT MAKES MAN MASTER
to tap Divine Mind we must bring the rate of vi-
bration of our mind up to the standard, for it is
only when our mind is vibrating at its most acceler-
ated rate that God can make Himself known to us.
The efficiency of the radio receiving set depends
upon the number of its tubes and their adjustment
to the electromagnetic field in which its kilocycles
function. By this same law the perfect man must
have his twelve great powers developed, operating in
perfect tune with Divine Mind, in order to bring
forth the image and likeness man.
In the silence when his mind is fixed steadily on
God and is functioning in the consciousness of in-
finite love, the activities of man’s brain cells syn-
chronize with those of the very brain cells of the
Master. Even the intelligent principle of the love
center responds, and thus man becomes a spiritual
radio with power to receive radiations from Divine
Mind as well as power to broadcast them throughout
his whole organism. He even is able to broadcast
them throughout his environment near and far, an
ability that is limited only by the spiritual power he
has developed.
Humanity must bear in mind that it is traveling
the road of spiritual unfoldment and hold its eye
on the goal. Right here in our midst, in the mind
realm as well as in the manifest world, will be de-
veloped a mighty neutralizing power that will render
ail destructive powers null and void, that will dis-
solve disease, and resurrect the consciousness of
peace, health, and abundance.
Fulfillment
a % nd god created man in his own image, m
/\ the image of God created he him; male
j\ and female created he them. And God
blessed them,” "And on the seventh day God fin-
ished his work which he had made; and he rested
on the seventh day from all his work which he had
made. And God blessed the seventh day, and hal-
lowed it; because that in it he rested from all his
work which God had created and made.”
Science tells us that all living forms are made up
of aggregations of cells, that all cells are made up
of molecules and atoms, and that atoms have within
them electrons and protons, the source of light and
energy, the source of everything the atom and its
aggregations manifest. So we are safe in asserting
that the atom at its core is Spirit and that Bible
characters had this primal source of light in mind
when they spoke of the light of the Spirit. Jesus
proclaimed: "I am the light of the world.” "Ye
are the light of the world.” When He spoke thus
He was speaking of this inner light which gives life
and intelligence to all creation. When the apostle
James wrote, "Every good gift and every perfect
gift is from above, coming down from the Father
of lights,” he was corroborating the Gospel of
FULFILLMENT
John, which in the very first chapter says: "In him
i was life; and the life was the light of men. And the
, light shineth in the darkness; and the darkness ap-
i prehended it not. There came a man, sent from
God, whose name was John. The same came for
witness, that he might bear witness of the light,
that all might believe through him. He was not the
s light, but came that he might bear witness of the
light. There was the true light, even the light which
lighteth every man, coming into the world.”
These light and energy units radiate light and
; generate light, of which an incandescent electrical
bulb is an example. From this we get a clue as to the
status of man and his body as a light center with
an aggregation of billions and trillions of cells,
every one of them flashing light of varying color
and brilliancy and forming about the body an aura
of splendor. As stated in John, this aura shines in
the darkness and the darkness apprehends it not.
The mind must be illumined by Christ before it can
behold the light radiating from every soul. “When
that light is developed it is visible to those who
know how to still the outer mind and enter into
the silence. In the 1st chapter of Revelation John
: says: "I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and I
! heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet. . . .
. I saw seven golden candlesticks; and in the midst of
the candlesticks one like unto a son of man, clothed
with a garment down to the foot, and girt about at
the breasts with a golden girdle. And his head and his
hair were white as white wool, w/pJu as snow; and
TEACH US TO PRAY
his eyes were as a flame of Are; and his feet like
unto burnished brass, as if it had been refined in
a furnace; and his voice as the voice of many waters.
... and his countenance was as the sun shine th
in his strength. And when I saw him, I fell at his
feet as one dead. And he laid his right hand upon
me, saying, Fear not; I am the first and the last, and
the Living one; and I was dead, and behold, I am
alive for evermore, and I have the keys of death and
of Hades.”
Here John, resting at the light center of his soul,
saw the resurrected Christ.
The development of this spiritual light is the
destiny of us all; and we shall not be satisfied until
we "awake in his likeness.” All are radiant in a
certain degree with this spiritual light, but especially
those who have an understanding of Spirit and its
universality. We feel the light and sometimes men-
tally see it flashing into expression when we have
a spiritual uplift gained from a new idea of Truth.
Others feel its influence and are moved to higher
things by it; or if it is radiating gloomily, they are
moved to depression and discouragement.
The scientific understanding of the great Bible
truths thrills the soul with the desire for spiritual
attainment, with a longing for spiritual fulfillment.
Today many enlightened persons are proudly ac-
knowledging Jesus Christ as the grand and perfect
fulfillment, as perceived by John in Revelation, and
they are claiming His promises: "If ye abide in me,
and my words abide in you, ask whatsoever ye will,
FULFILLMENT
aad it shall be done unto you.” ”I£ a man keep my
word, he shall never see death,”
We revel in just concentrating upon the name
Jesus Christ and in speculating about the history of
His soul’s unfoldment. We take delight in specu-
lating about the true reason why He is so far in
advance of our time. Surely Jesus Christ was the
product of a cycle of human development that was
before our present cycle of development. When here
on earth, through the mastery of spiritual laws of
which we today have only an inkling, He performed
many seeming miracles. Think of the condition in
those times of a body that had been dead for four
days. Imagine Jesus thanking God that His petition
had been heard and then speaking the word of life
to one who had lain in the grave for this length of
time. Then imagine this person instantly being
charged with new life; imagine great streams of
life flowing through his every cell and fiber until
he came walking out of the tomb, restored to per-
fect health. Imagine Jesus in the consciousness of
perfect unity with God speaking the healing word
to many "sick unto death” and each one instantly
throwing off the disease and coming forward sound
and well.
Jesus taught us how to pray. He taught us that
prayer is not only the spiritual approach to the
Father but that through prayer and realization we
attain the interpenetrating consciousness of God’s
perfect life and love and power. Jesus revealed to
us that we are the sheep, of His pasture; that is^
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that we are children of the same Father as He. He
is our Eider Brother, our helper. We are His peo-
ple, and He is interested in our progress.
Jesus Christ has provided and provides today the
greatest impetus to the ongoing of our race. When
the soul of the race (symbolized by Eve) became
involved in the pleasures of sensation (symbolized
by the serpent) and sought other guidance than
that of Jehovah God, gradual degeneration of the
whole human family began until men were in a
bad way. Something had to be done. Someway,
somehow we had to be lifted out of the mur%
darkness of sense thought.
To lift the race out of sense thought Jesus was
compelled by the necessity of soul sympathy to be-
come an intimate associate of the people He sought
to help. Hence He incarnated into the race and was
“tempted in all points as we are, but without sin.”
Through His experience on the cross, where His
precious blood was spilled, through His suffering
there Jesus lowered His consciousness to the con-
sciousness of the race, thereby administering to the
whole race a blood transfusion, imparting to both
the soul and the body of men the properties of
Being that will restore man to his divine estate.
With their blood transfusions the medical men
of today are copying this grand transfusion of life.
We are on the way to fulfillment and the Jesus
Christ way!
Jesus Christ broadcast the electrons of His blood
into the race thought atmosphere, and they may be
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apprehended by all who believe in Him. These elec-
trons become centers o£ energy and life in those
who appropriate them, and Aus men gradually
transform and regenerate their blood and their
body. This is the real spiritual meaning o£ being
saved by Jesus Christ.
The blood is the li£e. Jesus really came to bring
to the whole human family a larger consciousness
of life. He said, '1 came that ye may have life, and
may have it more abundantly.”
Life is a universal energy that moves even the
corpuscles of the blood. Therefore life is more power-
ful than the blood. Consequently we believe that
it was through the "shedding,” the getting rid, of
the idea of flesh and blood that Jesus accomplished
His great works. He tapped the great reservoir of
divine life and raised His consciousness of life to
that of the Father. Through Him we all have ac-
cess to this perpetual life stream. We must really
eat of His substance, as He taught us; that is, we
must appropriate it as spiritually ours. We must
drink of His blood: let His life stream flow through
our mind and body, healing, cleansing, and purify-
ing us in every way. This is the grand at-one-ment
(atonement) of man’s life with the life of God
through Jesus Christ. This is the way to perfect
fulflllment
Unfoldment
God’s pure life and substance are constantly
renewing and rebuilding His holy temple,
my body.
New and rich ideas arise in my mind, and I
demonstrate prosperity.
iiST 'T' NITY claims that the Bible teaches evolu-
I I tion; just where is the evolution of Jesus
V_y Christ taught ?”
The evolution of Jesus was a combination of mind
and body unfoldment.
The body of Jesus developed from germs planted
in Mary, His mother. Science says that all stages of
unfoldment from the most primitive animal to man
are illustrated in the development of the human
organism. So we must conclude that the body of
Jesus was an unfoldment from sense to Spirit.
However Unity teaches the evolution of both
soul and body; an evolution summarized in the 1st
chapter of John under the head of the unfoldment
of the Word. Bible authorities say that "Word” is
a poor translation of the Greek word Logos. Logos
UNFOIDMENT
conveys the idea of implanted God — ^Mind in man —
from ivhich the perfect man logically evolves.
God is Spirit. In creation Spirit takes the form
of mind, implanting itself in substance and be-
coming manifest as perfect man. Here is condensed
in a few words what would take volumes to de-
scribe. Here are epitomized all books on physiology
and evolution, mental science and psychology, re-
ligion and spiritual philosophy.
In the rocks beneath our feet are preserved the
bones of mammoth creatures that have been suc-
ceeded by finer types of animal life. Here is evi-
dence of evolution from lower to higher types of
life. Anthropology teaches that the earth has been
inhabited by man for at least half a million years.
Many hold that the present body of man has within
it natural forces that would transform it if they
were released. Those who read between the lines
have discovered that the Bible veils evolution in
rites, ceremonies, and acts of personalities.
As all words in every language have their root
in the thoughts and acts of man, so all the rites and
ceremonies of religion represent man’s relation to
his source, God, and the development of his soul.
The two baptisms, that of John and Jesus, repre-
sent the two common steps in the growth of the soul,
denial and affirmation, tibe dropping of the old and
the laying hold of the new. This is evolution.
In its totality John the Baptist represents the per-
fected natural man who recognizes his finality and
his willingness to surrender his personality so that
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the superman Christ may supplant him, thus sym-
bolizing the evolution of the soul from the personal
to the spiritual.
It is essential that a clear understanding be had of
the principles involved in the transition from the
natural to the spiritual, otherwise the way will be
difficult.
Jesus praised John as the most perfect of those
born of women — that is, of the Adam or natural
man — but He explained that John even in his per-
fection was not to be compared with the spiritual
man. He also commented on the futile efforts of
those on the natural plane who attempt by will
force (violence) to attain the spiritual (“kingdom
of heaven”).
In the process of developing out of the natural
into the spiritual not only the mind but the body
also is affected. The energy locked up in the cells
of the physical are released and the body of flesh
is transformed into a radiant body of light. This is
a day-by-day transformation of the cells until the
whole body is "electrified” and passes over into the
fourth dimension or kingdom of the heavens. Jesus
accomplished this transformation of His body and it
became an electrical dynamo broadcasting life germs
throughout our race consciousness. We are to fol-
low Him in this transformation.
These life germs of Jesus’ body form the nucleus
of a new race organism for alT people. All persons
everywhere may partake of (eat) the radiant body
(bread) of Jesus by exercising faith in Him as the
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UNFOLDMENT
great source of pure Spirit substance, sown as soui
seed for the saving of humanity from sense con-
sciousness.
Not only may one eat of this superbody sub-
stance but one may also drink through faith of His
transcendent life. Such eating of His body and
drinking of His life or blood is the ‘‘Holy Com-
munion” of which sincere Christians partake daily.
The understanding that this very intimate rela-
tion exists between Jesus and His true followers
is transforming the body of thousands of Christians
who formerly labored under the thought that the
new body in Christ was to be attained after death.
"I am the resurrection, and the life.” "If a man
keep my word, he shall never see death.”
When man understands that he is always right
in the presence of a supermind force that is per-
petually pushing him into higher states of con-
sciousness and finer physical radiations, he cannot
help-co-operating with it in the divine urge toward
higher things.
No man can retard this universal upward sWeep
of the whole creation, but in the exercise of his
inherent free will man can insulate his soul and
body, separate himself from it, and thus become
lost in the delusions of sense. To join the holy
Spirit in its efforts to gain the attention and co-
operation of all men we. make it a practice to join
with people of like mind in every walk of life in
affirming words that bind us to the mighty moving
Spirit of Jesus Christ.
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Thought Images
I see myself as God sees me, perfect in mind
and body.
What I image in mind is molded in omni-
present substance, and I behold plenty for
everybody.
E very time we go to a movie we are wit-
nessing a likeness of what is constantly tak-
ing place in our mind. A likeness is an imi-
tation or repetition of a tiling. The projection into
visible action of a series of small images by a motion-
picture machine is the copy of a process that we all
use, the picture-making ability of our mind. How-
ever the picture-making ability of our mind is a far
more substantial thing than the weak imitations of
the movie camera. We clothe our mental pictures
with flesh and blood, while the movie is merely
shimmering shadows.
It is true that persons who are shallow in their
: grasp of the deep things of life image weakly, and
the projections of their mind are transitory. But
’ those who have meditated seriously upon the source
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THOUGHT IMAGES
o£ existence and stirred up the inner substance and
life make very substantial pictures in the universal
ether or "kingdom of the heavens/’ An image pro-
jected from the head alone, which has not made
union with soul substance, is a mere flickering will-
o’-the-wisp that shimmers for a short moment in the
mental marshes and then fades away.
There is a vast difference between the thought
images of an intellectual thinker and those of one
who has got access to the spiritual substance and life
within. One may make brilliant pictures in the etiier,
but they are without the substance and life that is so
essential to the structure of things eternal. Jesus
illustrated this in His comparison of the man who
builds upon rock with the man who builds upon
sand. The house built upon sand soon falls, but
the one built on rock (substance) endures when the
winds and floods descend upon it.
Spiritual insight or discernment shows us that
Divine Mind, which created in the beginning, must
still be carrying forward the universe and the man
that it originally conceived. It also shows us that
by projecting the perfect picture of ourselves that
God projected we shall behold its perfect manifesta-
tion.
Paul says that we shall attain the glory of the
Lord by degrees: "from glory to glory.” Jesus said,
"In your patience ye shall win your souls.” So many
of us have visions of the perfect man, as had John
on Patmos, and we are so eager to be like him that
we get impatient and eagerly grasp at the many
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"promising” short cuts into the kingdom.
But we should be constantly reminded that there
are no shorter cuts than those taught by Jesus Christ,
He said that the kingdom of heaven suffered vio-
lence under John the Baptist and the other prophets
up to the time of John and that the violent took it
by force. Then He called attention to John the
Baptist as the reincarnation of Elijah. Of all the
old prophets Elijah was the most violent and de-
structive. He at one time called down the fire of
Jehovah and destroyed four hundred of the prophets
of Baal. This violent and destructive rise of the
power of the word finally reacted upon the ceils
of Elijah’s body and burned them up, and he was
taken up into the heavens in a chariot of fire.
It is popularly taught that Elijah is a saint in
heaven, but this cannot be true because, as Jesus
■plainly taught in Matthew 11:14, he appeared
: again in the earth as John the Baptist. Neither did
ijohn get into heaven. He expressed the Elijah
spirit by condemning Herod and then having his
head cut off by way of reaction to his destructive
thought. All this instructs us in the power of our
mind to bring peace, harmony, and health into our
life by right thinking. All that Jesus taught about
man and his mighty mental capacity is being con-
firmed by modern psychology and by the discoveries
of science in the realms invisible. For us it is not
only a privilege but an absolute necessity to bring
forth that perfection of character and form which
was originally imaged in our soul by God-Mind.
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Hhe Spoken Word
spirit life quickens mind and body, and I am
whole.
Spirit substance fills my mind and floods my
aflairs.
UNDERSTAND that the worlds were
\V / framed by the word of God spoken in
Yt faith. This in substance is the comment
of the author of Hebrews, undoubtedly Paul. If God
created by the power of His word it is fair to assume
that He gave like power to man, who has in minia-
ture all the abilities of His Father. Jesus confirmed
this power of man’s word when He said that we
should be held accountable for our lightest word
and that our words would both justify and condemn
us.
Our words are so interwoven with our thoughts
and acts that we do not discern the relation between
cause and effect, in fact we do not as a rule see any
connection between them. We are so concerned with
effects that we have no consciousness of causes.
So in explaining the law by which man builds his
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character, soul, body, and environment, we must
repeatedly call attention to the source of these things,
Spirit and its outlet in man, the word. Thought and
word are so intimately allied that we usually count
them as one. "Out of the abundance of the heart
his mouth speaketh.” Get a deep conviction of the
truth of your cause; then speak it forth in strong
words, and it will surely come to pass.
The process through which the idea — conceived
in mind, formed in thought, and made manifest in
■ body and affairs — ^passes in its various stages is not
always clear, and we are not usually concerned about
the manner in which the end is accomplished. The
fulfillment of our objective is the principle thing.
However it is within the province of man to un-
derstand and witness the whole process of creative
thought in his own organism. It requires soul cul-
ture of an advanced order to do this, and but few
persons are willing to undertake the necessary study
and discipline. It is not taught in any of the meta-
physical schools, because the instructions cannot be
put in words. No words have yet been invented to
express the attitudes of mind and body required to
raise the ceil life in man’s body to the required
potency. The spiritual 'ether in which we fioat has
a rate of vibration millions of times greater than
matter. This is the kingdom of Spirit life, which
Jesus brought to our attention and of which we
must lay hold if we would attain eternal or con-
tinuous life. The individuality or I AM must give
concentrated attention to this inner life energy and
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THE SPOKEN WOED
introduce it into mind and body continually until the
whole nervous system is aflame with Spirit life. We
may not be conscious of it, but we are all seeking
this inner life flame, because its ener^ is the only
source upon which we can draw to raise our atomic
vibration to the point where it will overcome the
slow disintegrating flow of human nature.
There are souls in the heavens who have accom-
plished this and so attuned their bodies to the spir-
itual life that they are no longer subject to death.
Jesus of Nazareth is the illumined soul appointed
to save our race from the disintegrating effects of
broken law, and through Him we are dynamically
infused with life.
Every time we listen to a radio program we have
in the diffusion of intelligence an illustration of
what Jesus accomplished in the diffusion of life.
In the 1st chapter of John we read, "In him was life;
/and the life was the light of men,”
Here light (intelligence) and life are treated as
one. Like all the attributes of Spirit, intelligence
or the knowing quality is united with the active
quality, life. There is a spiritual ether corresponding
to the radio ether, into which Jesus merged His soul
and body at His disappearance in the heavens (hoi
oufanoi). Here awaitiiig our appropriation is a radi-
ant intelligence and life. When we turn our atten-
tion within and give ourselves up wholly to Spirit,
we are quickened with a life and intelligence of
sup'erexcellence.
When the blood stream becomes depleted our
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physicians hasten to make a blood transfusion, over-
looking tlie fact that Jesus Christ made it possible
for all of us to receive from Him a life transfusion
that not only revives us in temporal ills but, above
all, begins in our body a purifying and energizing
process that will finally save us from death.
When we strive to be like Jesus in thought and
word we are quickened by Him and are lifted up.
;This results in healing; but far more important, we
:are inoculated with the germs of soul and body
cleansing.
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Thou Shalt Decree
In the presence and power of the Christ in me
I decree the manifestation of perfect health.
In the presence and power of the living
Christ substance I claim the riches of God.
G od made man by the power of His word:
‘'God said, Let us make man in our image,
after our likeness.” By virtue of his spiritual
origin and the power vested in him man forms by his
word the world in which he lives. Jehovah said to
Job, "Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall
be established unto thee.”
Every word man utters energizes the ether with
a creative impulse that in due season brings forth
its image and likeness.
The formative power of man s thought and word
is governed by his faith in himself and the vehe-
mence with which he thinks and speaks.
Jesus expected great things of His followers be-
cause He knew what is in man. He knew that man
has laid hold of the power of God, as stated in
Genesis 3:22, "Behold, the man is become as one
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o£ US.” Jesus recognized this when He said, "Is it
not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods?”
We have not brought forth in the majesty of
the sons of God because of our self-depreciation
and our ignorance of the creative law implanted
in us. Job had the inferiority complex of person-
ality. He whined:
"Behold, I am of small account; what shall I an-
swer thee ? . . .
Then Jehovah answered Job out of tlie whirlwind,
and said,
Gird up thy loins now like a man:
■ I will demand of thee, and declare tliou unto me . . .
Deck thyself now with excellence and dignity;
J And array thyself with honor and majesty.”
Isaiali said, "Woe unto them that decree un-
righteous decrees.” Our woes can be traced right
back to some unrighteous decree. We have decreed
a thousand things that we did not want to come to
pass, but that have come to pass, and we are suffer-
ing the woeful consequences.
Our body is weak or strong, according to what
we have decreed for it. Every organ is function-
ing as we have decreed. If we have said, "My
stomach is weak,” the obedient life and substance
has formed this kind of stomach for us. If we have
declared strength and vigor for our stomach, this
organ will at once begin to carry out our decree.
"Say the word, and my servant shall be healed.”
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So every organ and member of the body responds to
our decree.
Man is the anointed son of God called Christ.
When we know the truth about ourselves we are
freed from the bondage of the foolish decrees of
personality. Do not exalt personality in your de-
crees for yourself. Exalt Christ by making your de-
crees in His name. "Christ in you, the hope of glory.”
The vital energy of eternal life exists in every
ceil of our body. Science proclaims tiiat its experi-
ments with animal tissues prove that man’s body
would live forever if it were not for his brain. In
a recent interview Doctor Carrel says that "the only
thing that keeps men from living forever is the
possession of a brain and nervous system.”
Metaphysicians know that the brain and nervous
system are the organ of the mind, and that man
di'es because he is not wise in his directive power.
"And the Almighty will be thy treasure,
And precious silver unto thee”
was the prosperity proclamation of our wise old
friend Job.
A "depression” took everything he owned, even
his sons and daughters. But he was not defeated, he
claimed his own and it was restored to him:
"Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak;
I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me . . .
And Jehovah gave Job twice as much as he had
before.”
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Be Strong in the Lord
1 praise and give thanks that I am strong in
the Lord and in the power of His might.
I praise and give thanks for the plenty,
visible and invisible, that I feel and see
everywhere.
T o BE "strong in the Lord, and in the power
of his might” means that we are seeking
strength and power from sources other than
the physical. Food and exercise are the usual sources
of bodily vigor. We are not discussing mental
vigor, which is gained by combining diet, discipline,
and idealism.
A study of Truth reveals that words based upon
the authority of Spirit develop dynamic force. The
difference between the force of a word based in
physical things and one based in spiritual things is
the difference between the effect one gets from con-
tact with a wire carrying a light and a wire carrying
a heavy voltage.
The time will come when scientific metaphysics
will measure mathematically the currents of energy
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emanating from a brain charged with material ideas
and one charged with spiritual ideas. At present the
science of mind is quite primitive. We are, like
Franklin, flying a few kites and making cursory
excursions into a field of energy the control of which
will eventually change our whole world.
We have found however that very definite changes
occur in our mind and body when we practice con-
centration in the silence. This means that when we
want to gain spiritual power we get still mentally
and physically and turn our attention within. On
our first entering this "silence” we close our eyes
and ears, and with our concentrated attention fixed
on an imaginary point within, we repeat silently
any set of words that carry a spiritual idea. Witli
practice we can make the inner connection without
closing the eyes.
In His directions for effective prayer Jesus told
His disciples to go into the secret place and close
the door, there to pray to the Father in secret, and
the response would appear outwardly. Jesus some-
times prayed all night. He taught persistence in
prayer. We find that contact with the supermind —
which Jesus named the Father — is sometimes quickly
made in concentrated prayer; then again our mind
is slow to see the inner light. The relation of our
mind to creative Mind may be compared to the re-
lation of a radio receiving set to a broadcasting
station. As we must tun'e our radio set so that it will
pick up waves from the proper station, so we have
to acquire the ability to attune our mind to Divine
TEACH US TO PRAY
Mind, so we may learn by spiritual understanding
the true ideas that exist eternally in Divine Mind.
Ever}?- word has a quality that sympathetically re-
lates it to an idea innate in the mind o£ man, and
when the word is released it radiates an energy that
contracts or expands the body cells and through
them external nature. For example, words of praise,
gratitude, or thanksgiving expand, set free, and in
every way radiate energy. Words of failure or im-
potence congest energy and cause the cells to crowd
together, making nerves trembly and bones brittle.
When the thoughts are lifted up to the contem-
plation of our all-pervading and all-powerful Spirit
Father and our voices ring out in words of praise
and thanksgiving, the withered hands and shackled
feet are freed, the walls of negation are shattered,
and we step forth into a new consciousness of life.
To those in the clutches of adverse words it seems
a travesty to praise and give thanks to the God of
strength and power, but thousands of those who
have endured poverty ^d sickness for years find
that their prison doors open when they praise and
give thanks, like Paul and Silas, as related in the
l6th chapter of Acts. They were praying and singing
hymns to God when suddenly there was a great
earthquake, all the prisoners’ chains were loosened,
and Paul and Silas stepped forth free men.
So you will find that you can be freed from all the
prison ceils of mind’s blind thinking by lifting up
your voice and heart in songs of praise and thanks-
giving to the God of freedom, light, and life.
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Face to Face with God
j Thy Spirit strengthens both my soul and my
' body, and I rest in the peace of wholeness
and health.
i Every anxious thought is stilled. Thy mighty
I confidence and Thy peace infold me. Omni-
j present Spirit substance fills my mind, and
abundance is everywhere manifest.
M any Christian metaphysicians who are
quite familiar with the idea of the omni-
presence of God address Him in terms that
imply His absence. Instead of talking direct to God,
who is always right in our midst, we talk about Him.
We are apt to say, ‘'God strengthens both my soul
and my body” instead of "Thy Spirit stren^hens
both my soul and my body.”
Our words betray our dominant state of mind,
although the logic of Truth may belie this. We see
logically that there cannot be any separation in
spirit between the Creator and the created, but the
created has the power to think of itself as separate
from its source, and this thought makes a mental
vacuum in which there is a total absence of spiritual
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attributes. The human familj on this planet has set
up this sort of a mental void, and unless we train
our mind to think the truth, we find ourselves talk-
ing to God as if He were in the next room or in somte
faraway heaven in the skies.
We in our day and age are not alone in making
God the third person in our conversation. Bible
authors did the same. We should remember that
the people who live today are the same people who
lived in the past, in other words, we are the people
who thought ourselves separate from God life and
thereby killed our body. We also are like some of
the people who acted the part of the prodigal son,
desiring to be again united with the Father.
However we should not forget that although the
Father was "moved with compassion, and ran, and
fell on his neck, and kissed him,” the prodigal was
yet "afar off.” No one save Jesus the Christ has
fully bridged this gulf of separation, and we are
excusable if we at times lapse into the old conscious-
ness of absence from the Father. Jesus gives us the
right cue when He affirms, "It is the spirit that
giveth life; the flesh profiteth nothing; the words
that I have spoken unto you are spirit, and are life.”
"For as the Father hath life in himself, even so
gave he to the Son also to have life in himself.”
We find that we must train our mind in trust,
look persistently and continuously to God for all
things, and rest in the assurance that what we ask
and affirm in Spirit will surely come to pass. Jesus
had such supreme confidence and faith in the Father
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as the source o£ health and prosperity that His name
has become the synonym and open door for the
manifestation of those things. He said that whatever
we asked of the Father in His name would be
granted. Many persons get a very definite mental
uplift and consciousness of Spirit by repeating audi-
bly and silently the name Jesus Christ. But the name
does not represent the real character of the person
unless it is known to us through our acquaintance
: with the person himself. Unless you have read about
^ Jesus and tried to realize His love, wisdom, and
, supermind power, you have no conception of the
meaning of His name. Paul urged that we let Christ
be formed in us. That means that through the
study of the life of Jesus and the discipline He
; gave His mind we shall put into our mind the same
; ideas that He had. These ideas will form in our
mind a new kind of man, which is God’s man.
When you turn your attention to Spirit your mind
makes contact with a realm of ideas very much above
the level of your common thinking; and when you
strike this mental stratosphere you are tremendously
lifted up. Then you make your statements of Truth
and whatever you decree comes to pass. Job’s friend
Eliphaz said to him:
"Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace:
Thereby good shall come unto thee. ...
, Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be es-
tablished unto thee;
. And light shall shine upon thy ways."
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I see myself as God sees me, strong, robust,
healthy.
The Spirit of industry, energy, and honesty
now stirs me to aaion, and 1 am truly
prosperous,
T here is an idea quite prevalent in the public
mind that we teach a system of thought and
word juggling; that anyone anywhere can
have any and every thing by merely repeating over
and over certain magic words. It is true that words
have magic in them and very often the result of the
mental imagery evoked by them is so startling as to
suggest Aladdin and his lamp. However a compre-
hension of the whole philosophy reveals a well-
balanced set of principles upon which it rests. By
being determined one can project an isolated idea
and get results without conforming to the accepted
laws of human relationships. No one can use the
dynamic power of thought and word in unbalanced
ways without suffering undesirable reactions. To
avoid this we keep before our mind’s eye the dom-
inant existence of a divine order and law to which
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we must conform if we are to attain enduring suc-
cess. Jesus taught that He was the executive of a
spiritual principle that was the source, the wisdom,
and the power of everything He did. He urged His
followers to look to the same inner power. "Seek,
and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened
unto you.”
We who are striving to acquire an understanding
of the divine law and to apply it in our life as Jesus
did in His should set up the same intimate relation
with the Father that He did. "For the Father loveth
the Son, and showeth him all things that he himself
doeth.” We are all the offspring of God and come
•into sonship when we acquaint ourselves with His
mind.
In the beginning of our existence as free, thinking
entities we had a certain consciousness of the Father-
Mind, but continued thinking of ourselves as inde-r
pendent of this Mind has formed a gulf of apart-
ness. We are prodigals in the far country of sense
life. Those of us who are beginning to see how poor
and bare this material life is have turned our- faces
to the Father’s house and are mentally journeying
home. It is not a question of geographical locality
but of mental recognition. "The kingdom of God
is within you,” said Jesus. Seeking God within
changes our whole mental viewpoint. We find our-
selves right in the presence of creative Mind, and
seeking to co-operate with this Mind, we receive
spiritual inspiration and are guided in even the most
minute details of life.
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In the early stages of our spiritual awakening we
realize our dependence upon God for all that we
are, and our attitude is that of the humble, obedient
child. Then gradually there arises within us the
consciousness of sonship, the consciousness that God
is the parent Mind and that w^e inherit all the ideas
constituting this Mind. If we inherit these creative
ideas it logically follows that we are to use them.
This is where, as Jesus explained, the son becomes
the co-operator with the Father in creation. "For
as the Father hath life in himself, even so gave he to
the Son also to have life in himself; and he gave him
authority to execute judgment, because he is a son
of man.” The claim that Jesus was the exclusive
and only Son of God is here refuted: "because he is
a son of man,” By divine right man is the executive
power of God-Mind, and he will never fulfill the
law of his being before he enters into the realization
of his dominion and authority in the realms of
mind and matter.
Thus we see that we are warranted in affirming
our unity with God and expecting the attributes o£
the perfect man to appear. "Judge not according
to appearance,” Right in the face of adverse appear-
ances enter into God-Mind and see yourself as He
sees you, strong, robust, healthy. Jesus said, "Marvel
not at this: for the hour cometh, in which all that
are in the tombs shall hear his voice, and shall come
forth.” All those who believe in the inevitable con-
quest of death are already in mental tombs, but
when they realize that Jesus walked out of the tomb
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and said, "Follow me,” they are lifted into the
heavens of eternal life. Do not be afraid to go all
the way with Jesus.
When the prodigal son returned, the father ran
to meet him, ordered the best robe to be put upon
him, shoes on his feet, a ring on his hands; and he
provided a feast, with merriment. Here is parabled
th'e prosperity that ensues when man returns to the
consciousness of God as his resource. In the world
of affairs, industry, energy, and honesty are expected
of those who would succeed. These qualities have a
divine source and can be quickened and intensely
energized by attaching them to the dynamic mind
of God. "Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall
be established unto thee.”
spiritual Soul Therapy
I praise Thee and bless Thee for the con-
sciousness of health and wholeness tlirough
Christ.
With all Thy people I praise and bless Thy
i Spirit of plenty now manifest everywhere.
P SYCHOANALYSIS is growing more popular every
day because it measures the capacity of the
soul. We are all interested in our soul and
how to save it. Those who follow Jesus go one step
further in soul therapy than the average psychoan-
alyst; they incorporate Spirit with soul and make
it the primal source and sustainer of both soul and
body. "It is the spirit that quickeneth.”
We make our soul out of the thoughts and words
we entertain. Consequently we should be very care-
ful in choosing our words, because they are the
; means by which we convey Spirit to character and
its structure. So instead of psychoanalysis let us say
we have Spirit psychoanalysis.
• Every word has its root in an idea, whether this
\ idea is reflected from within or not. '\5^en we wish
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to approve, extol, applaud, or commend we praise
and bless. Words of this Idnd and tlie mental atti-
tudes that they set up stimulate, quicken, whirl into
action, and finally establish in character the ideals
of which they are the vehicle. So let us remember
that we use words as instruments of ideas and that
it is the idea that we are seeking to enlarge and es-
tablish by our words of praise and blessing.
So "praise” and "bless” are words freely used by
those who love spiritual values, because these words
are heavily charged with capacity to express creative
Mind. In themselves alone the words "praise” and
"bless” are potent for good because they are asso-
ciated with ideas that eulogize the good. These
words are not found in the vocabulary of the pes-
simist or atheist. From various sources we learn that
scientists are experimenting with instruments like
the lie tester that register mind emotions. These in-
struments measure the force of fear and courage,
sorrow and joy; in fact every emotion and mental
attitude is coming under scientific observation, and
it will not be long before we can produce graphs
of the power of every thought as it registers on
the nerve and brain cells of the body. When these
brain testers definitely prove that certain emotions
not only stimulate but permanently enlarge brain
areas the cultivation of constructive states of mind
will become part of our common-school curriculums.
Metaphysicians find that words that express
thanks, gratitude, and praise release latent energies
of mind and spirit; and the effects of their use fol-
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low SO quickly that they can almost be identified
with the originating words.
Let your words of praise and blessing be to Spirit
and tlie increase will be even greater than it has
been when addressed to man. The resources of Spirit
are beyond our highest flights of imagination. You
can praise a weak body into strength, a fearful heart
into peace and trust; shattered nerves into poise and
power; a failing business into prosperity and suc-
cess; want and insufficiency into supply and support.
The healing and prosperity thoughts in this Aap-
ter are a guide for those who are trying to demon-
strate the power of words to regulate health and
finances. If you are in need of health use the state-
ment as printed, putting special emphasis on the
words "strength” and "power.” When using these
health-producing words, direct your attention to
Spirit as if it were an interpenetrating presence,
which it is. Try to feel the quickening spiritual
harmony and health, which will be manifested at
once! or later, depending on your attitude toward
the time element. If you join in thought with Silent
Unity every night from nine to ten o’clock you will
get a powerful uplift. In demonstrating prosperity
you should praise and bless even minor evidences
of financial improvement.
Remember what Jesus said about your mental at-
titude in demonstrating spiritually: "And all things,
whatsoever ye shall ask m prayer, believing, ye shall
receive”; which may be rephrased thus: Pray, believ-
ing that you have received, and you shall receive.
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Health and Prosperity
My health is in Thee, and I affirm Thee and
Thy life as the one and only source of my
healing.
i Thou art my resource, and in Thee I am
bountifully supplied with all things.
G od is spirit, and Spirit is located and ap-
pears wherever it is recognized by an intelli-
gent entity. It thus follows that whoever
gives his attention to Spirit and seals his identifica-
: tion with it by his word, starts a flow of Spirit life
and all the attributes of Spirit in and through his
consciousness. To the extent that he practices identi-
fying himself with the one and only source of ex-
istence he becomes Spirit, until finally the union
attains a perfection in which he can say with Jesus,
"I and the Father are one."
Many persons who have been taught that God
exists in a realm separate from His creations and
that He has parts and passions like man discount
. the claim that He is the. essence of man’s body. But
; that Spirit is the essence of all things is good logic,
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and those who have made the contact with Spirit
life testify that it has revealed itself to them as the
very source of their existence; that is, as creative
Mind, God.
Jesus was undoubtedly the most radical of ail the
tliousands who have claimed that God revealed
Himself to them right out of omnipresence.
The same thought stuff that God used to create
man is accessible to man at all times and in ail
places. In fact we are using this all-potential thought
stuff with every mental concept. Thus we plant
ideas in the same soil in which God-Mind plants its
ideas, and the offspring or fruit is of the same kind.
"Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.”
Following the creative law that works constantly
in Spirit substance and life, we find that we are
creating permanent thought forms when our ideals
are in harmony with divine law. We thus see that
our immortal body is formed when our thoughts
harmoni2e with what we intuitively know to be
God thoughts, and the perishable body is formed
when we think and speak words that are out of
line with Truth as established in divine principle.
God is Spirit. God is the source of all that we are,
hence the source of life, substance, and intelligence.
The one and only substance out of which all things
are formed is right here at ail times, awaiting our
recognition of it in its spiritual freedom. When we
do recognize it in the simple faith that it will carry
out our demands, we are doing just what Jesus did.
In like manner the divine substance, out of which
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ail things are formed, in its spiritual freedom is
here in our midst waiting for us to form it into
whatever we may decree. Thus it follows that God
has actually planted man in a garden or paradise
of potential substance (mental soil), out of which
he can grow his prosperity.
Thousands are testifying in this day that a greater
work is being done in His name than was done in
Palestine.
Your health and prosperity will surely be demon-
strated if you are faithful in your open-mindedness;
in holding fast to healing and prosperity thoughts.
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Thoughts Are Things
I am no longer like Lot’s wife, preserving
evil in mind and body by remembering it. I
relax and willingly let go of all effete sub-
stance, that the new, pure radiance of God
may be made manifest in me,
I My mind no longer clings to the complexity
I of mortal finances. I am open to the splendor
I of the kingdom of God within, and a flood
of plenty follows.
O NE OF the axiomatic truths of metaphysics
is that “thoughts are things.” That the mind
of man marshals its faculties and literally
makes into living entities the ideas that it entertains
is also a foregone conclusion.
The word “things” expresses poorly the active
and very vital character of the thoughts to which the
mind gives life, substance, and intelligence.
We see so many inanimate “things” around us in
the material world, and we compare our creative
thoughts with them and thereby get a very inferior
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conception o£ the marvelous ability o£ our mind in
its creative capacity.
Shakespeare says, “The poet’s pen . . . gives to
airy nothing a local habitation and a name.” At the
same time the poet’s mind £orms in the ether a
replica of his idea, and that replica takes up its
habitation in his thought atmosphere and hence-
forth injects into it a tincture of die sentiments that
the poet orginally had.
This ability of the Adamic man to “name” or
give character, form, and shape to ideas is sym-
bolically described in the 2d chapter of Genesis,
where Jehovah God brought before Adam the ele-
mental ideas or “beasts” of the Garden of Eden
(called by metaphysicians the “ether”). “And what-
soever the man called every living creature, that was
the name thereof.”
We often refer in Unity literature to the dis-
coveries by modern science of the ether and its
stupendous properties as confirming in scientific
terms what Jesus taught in symbols concerning the
properties of the ether, which He named the king-
dom of the heavens. The Garden of Eden is a sym-
bolic description of that elemental realm which
modern science has named the ether. Science says
that this ether fills all space, is not molecular, and
possesses an amount of energy beyond comparison
witli anything material; that all the complex phe-
nomena of nature may be reduced to different kinds
of waves of energy in the ether. Professor James
Jeans says, “We live in a universe of waTes, andj
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nothing but waves.” He also says that it may be that
our mind lays hold of the atoms of our body and so
forms the world about us.
Here we see how very near to the teaching of
religion scientific minds are approaching. They are
virtually proclaiming the one life as the source of
everything. Their next great proclamation will be
that one directive intelligence is an essential cause
of the harmonious universe.
Every experienced metaphysician knows that
man’s mind molds from an omnipresent element
whatever takes form, shape, and intelligence and be-
comes part of his thought world. That science in a
measure confirms this is a source of gratification and
a stabilizer of faith. Knowing that our world is com-
posed of what we have idealized should make us
more watchful of the activities of our mind. Are we
still harboring thought forms that are impeding our
soul’s progress ? Are we preserving our evil thoughts
by thinking about them with fear in our mind? Or
it may be that we yearn for the pleasures of the
past and like Lot’s wife look back, thereby sub-
jecting ourselves to the things of the past or with
the salt of the mind preserving them. There are
always better things just ahead for those who build
in mind the living ihought entities that go before
and open the way,
Man lives in two worlds, the world of cause and
the world of effect. The world of effect is at present
in a complex tangle. Panaceas without number are
offered. Thete is but one panacea and that is the
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installation o£ an economic system in whidi human
greed will be eliminated. To institute such a system
will require men and women who have overcome
greed in themselves.
I£ you would help the world, and incidentally
yourself, to better economic conditions, begin to
deny your selfishness and greed and affirm,
"I am open to the splendor of the kingdom o£
God within, and a flood of plenty follows.”
The Supermind
I join with all the hosts of heaven in declai:-
ing that only the good is tme, and that good
health everywhere is made manifest
The rich substance of the kingdom of God
is pouring its plenty perpetually into my
mind and affairs, and I am in all ways
prospered.
T hat man in his spiritual nature is leagued
with supermind realms is taught freely in the
Scriptures and can be proved to the satisfac-
tion of anyone who will submit to the required men-
tal discipline. That these supermind forces are not
always used to bring about good is no argument
against their existence. Anyone who develops spir-
itually in any way breaks into realms of thought
energy superior to the intellectual and can incite to
action subtle causes that mystify the average on-
looker. For this reason every Christian metaphysi-
cian should have some acquaintance with these facts
about the supermind, which occupies so great a
place in Truth demonstrations.
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The question is often asked if tlie Indian medi-
cine man or the African witch doctor uses the same
force that the Christian healer does. The answer is
yes. There is but one primal life in which we all
exist and which we use as we will. The way in which
we project this force determines whether we are
Christian or pagan. If our thought is to destroy,
we are pagan. If our thought is for peace, we are
Christian. This law is operative not only in the
nations but in every individual. As we are taught
in our Bible, God originally guided man to think
good only; but man was tempted and chose to be
free and think for himself. This freedom threw the
whole race into a mental vortex of "good” and
"evil,” hate and love, war and peace. Christ is the
Prince of Peace and Satan is the devil of destruction.
These good and evil states of consciousness form
the heavens and the hells of the race, and we go
in mind to heaven or hell every time we mentally
project the thoughts that "chord” with that particu-
lar state. Only a supermastermind can overcome this
law of mental affinity and set up in our earthly dis-
cordant thought atmosphere a consciousness of peace
and loVe. Jesus was able to do this, and when we
think of Him, the Christ in us "tunes in” to the
'Christ in Him and we are saved from the destruc-
tive forces that tear soul and body asunder.
The mental harmony of Jesus not only radiates
throughout the earth but reaches into the heavens,
where it taps the glory of the Son of God. When
we pray in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ or .^
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decree His presence and power in our spiritual
work, we effect a reunion with His supermind and
its tremendous ramifications in heaven and earth,
and our own meager spiritual ability is augmented
a thousandfold. Jesus understood and used this law
of thought affinity when He claimed that the works
He did were not His but the Father’s within Him.
It was in this consciousness that He proclaimed,
"All authority hath been given unto me in heaven
and on earth.” He also affirmed a like spiritual
unity for His disciples and for all those who pro-
claim Him as their spiritual leader. His last promise
was "And these signs shall accompany them that
believe: in my name shall they cast out demons;
they shall speak with new tongues; they shall take
up serpents, and if they drink any deadly thing, it
shall in no wise hurt tliem; they shall lay hands on
the sick, and they shall recover." This is found in
the l6th chapter of Mark, where it is also written,
"And they went forth, and preached everywhere,
the Lord v/orking with them, and confirming the
word by the signs that followed.”
Peter and John developed marvelous healing
power when they spoke the magic words to the lame
man at the gate Beautiful: "In the name of Jesus
Christ of Nazareth, walk." "And immediately his
feet and his ankle-bones received strength. And leap-
ing up, he stood, and began to walk.”
For two thousand years those who have had faith
in Jesus and proclaimed their faith in His name
have had proof that He is present as a dynamic
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life-giving force. Men and women with no previous
healing power have suddenly become healers of
marvelous ability. They do not claim to understand
how the healing is done. They know only that
through the exercise of faith and their word the
spiritual quality in them is fused into unity with
the power of Christ and the work is marvelously
accomplished.
cheerfulness Heals
The joy of health and happiness in Christ
I fills my body with new life, and I am made
^ whole.
i The love of the cheerful giver is expressed
in me, and I feel Spirit pouring out its plenty
into all my affairs.
E verybody advocates cheerfulness as an aid to
healing, but how few practice it as a vital,
part of the restorative principle? The large
majority of sick persons are pessimists. They think
: they are much worse off than they are. They retard
the healing efforts of nature and nature’s God by
repeated shocks of mental depression and fear of
the serious character of some physical shadow as
1 transient as "ships that pass in the night.”
Some of our best doctors say that eighty per
.cent of humanity’s ills would heal of themselves
iif left alone. In a book called "Let’s Operate,” by
|Dr. Roy H, McKay and Norman Beasley, we find
this in italics:
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^^What people dofit know, or won’t believe, is
that in eighty per cent oj the cases they would get
better without the ministrations of a physician, if
they would merely go to bed ard follow a proper
diet.”
To this the writers add:
"This applies to operations too. Every day a dis-
tressing number of unnecessary ones are being per-
formed.”
The authors of this book are not metaphysicians.
Doctor McKay is an eminent surgeon. He says in
his preface, "This book was written with great re-
luctance.”
So we find that good doctors, who have the wel-
fare of humanity at heart, are advising that we do
not race to the operating table at the first sign of
pain.
"Be of good cheer,” The intelligence that created
your body knows how to repair it. Get still, relax,
turn your attention to the sustaining life forces
within your organism. Say to yourself,
/ will fear no evil; for thou art with me.
Don’t eat unless you are hungry. Many of our
' ills are caused by a greedy appetite that, in being
satiated, clogs the body with surplus fuel. Jesus
• told His disciples that a certain type of devil (error)
could be eradicated only by fasting and prayer. Then
i rejoice and be glad when you begin to feel the heal-
5 ing peace of Spirit creeping over you.
- As we find cheerfulness conducive to health we
TEACH US TO PRAY
also find it paving the way for prosperity. Paul
wrote, “God loveth a cheerful giver.” If the Lord
loves a cheerful giver, it must follow that He takes
a more intimate interest in the finances of a happy
person than in those of one who handles his money
in a stingy fashion.
Make it a practice to put love and good cheer
into all your finances, and you will open up sources
of income that have stagnated because you have
not given their mind substance an opportunity to
flow into your affairs.
You have doubtless met commercial Jonahs —
sunk in the waters of their own negative statements.
Avoid their pessimistic thoughts and words. Bless
what you receive; bless what you send out. God's
plenteous substance moves in and through our mind
constantly like a light shining in the darkness, but we
do not comprehend it.
Cultivate the bountiful, cheerful spirit in every
thought and act. Then your finances will flov/ har-
moniously, and you will never lack any good thing.
Love Harmonizes
Thine harmonizing love is minej and I am
restored to peace and health.
Divine love, like a magnet, charges my mind
and prospers my affairs.
% MONO PEOPLE who observe and think there is
/\ no question about love’s being the greatest
/ \ harmonizing principle known to man. The
question is how to get people to use love in ad-
justing their discords. Where for a lifetime there
has been continuous agitation for lawmaking and
force as panaceas for the discords of humanity, the
simple and easy methods of love seem childish and
silly. The minds of reformers have as a rule been
charged and surcharged with pictures of the unjust
conditions in the world and their righteous indig-
nation has often been excited to the boiling point.
Their uppermost thought is how to outlaw or crush
the oppressors. They fairly explode with indigna-
tion when love or some of its attributes is proposed
as a remedy. This brings up the matter of the com-
ponent pa.rts of love, what the elements are that
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constitute that very quiet and apparently powerless
thing called love.
Paul says (I Cor. 13) that love is patience, kind-
ness, generosity, contentment, modesty, goodness and-
good temper, truth, burden-bearing capacity, faith in
everything, a hope for the happy outcome of every-
thing, and never a thought of failure. These are some
of the working parts of love, but not all. The fact is
that love is fundamental in every activity of life,
not only in the spiritual and mental but in the me-
dianical and physical as well.
Scientists describe gravitation as the force with
which bodies attract each other. This definition holds
’ good in the mental, in the physical, and for all we
' know, in the spiritual realm. So what the physicist
! calls gravitation is one of the activities of love.
Withdraw for one instant the steady pull of love
from mother earth and we, her children, would
be plunged into the depths of space and darkness.
, We should remember this when we are tempted to
think that no one loves us. The spiritually devel-f
oped soul gives thought and attention to these ap-
; parently invisible yet powerful forces, and by re-i
peated mental contacts it unifies spirit, soul, and
! body in the one Mind, which sustains and unifies
j all things.
It is through this process of unfolding love that
great souls are developed. Souls are not created
. great but with the capacity to become great. Many
factors enter into soul growth, some minor and
some major, but a soul never attains supermind
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LOVE HARMONIZES
power without love. The reason why love is es-
sential in a great soul is that love is the binding
power, the factor so necessary to strengthening or
fortifying the soul. Hate and antagonism are disin-
tegrating, and they destroy the cohesion of the spir-
itual electrons and protons of which the soul is
built.
There are metaphysicians who think that this
earth is a temporary abiding place of the soul, a
kind of kindergarten, where lessons are learned
in a single lifetime that fit the soul at death to fly
away to paradise or some beautiful place in the
skies. This line of thought separates the soul from
its source and builds a mental gulf between soul
and body. The body is the precipitation of the soul
or thinking part of man; if it has developed sensu-
ality and separation, it must be redeemed by being
unified with the soul, and this unification is ac-
complished through love. When like Jesus we have
developed love for all things, even for our enemies,
then the body and all its elements become plastic
: to thought and we have all power in heaven and in
earth. The energy of light, through which creative
Mind rules heaven and earth, is amenable to man
when his mind of love synchronizes with creative
Mind and he can say, "I and the Father are one.”
According to physicists, nature in all its forms is an
electromagnetic "solution” in which the atoms spin
like cannon balls about one another; that is, nothing
is solid, as it seems to be, but everything floats
in ethereal space, ready to fly about at the impulse
TEACH US TO PBAY
of a directive mind of superenergy such as that of
Jesus. With this understanding we can see that Jesus
was stating facts of superscience when He said to
His disciples, "If ye have faith as a grain of mus-
tard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove
hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and
nothing shall be impossible unto you.”
In his "Essay on Man” Pope must have had some-
thing akin to this combination of gravitation and
love in mind when he wrote,
"When the loose mountain trembles from on high,
Shall gravitation cease, if you go by?”
In us who are followers of Jesus in the regenera-
tion, which engrafts upon the natural man the
spiritual genius that causes him to develop super-
man power, it begins its work by inspiring us to do
little things in love. From this doing grow larger
capacities until we attain the full stature of the
Christ man.
According to Revelation, Jesus said, "He that
overcometh, I will give to him to sit down with me
in my throne.”
We begin our overcoming by thought mastery.
We begin to master thoughts of hate and force by
first thinking and doing the little component acts
that constitute love. Begin today to be a little more
patient. Practice kindness. Be generous in thought
and act. When you are tempted to lose your temper,
say, "I have a good temper.” Affirm your truth-
fulness under all circumstances. If your burdens
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seem greater than yon can bear, remember what
Jesus said: "Come unto me, all ye that labor and
are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.” Develop
spiritual faith by believing in spiritual forces capa-
ble of accomplishing for you the seemingly impos-
sible. Affirm a propitious outcome for everything
you plan or do, and never admit failure in anything.
"He that overcometh, I will give to him to sit
down with me in my throne, as I also overcame,
and sat down with my Father in his throne. He that
hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to
the churches.”
Casting Out Fear
All-infolding God love and protection frees
me from every thought of fear, and I am
strong and well.
My mind is filled and satisfied with Thine
all-infolding substance, and all things
are added.
I T IS THE unanimous verdict of students of the
mind that fear is a paraly2er of mental action;
also that fear weakens both mind and body.
This being so universally conceded, it certainly is
not worth while to call attention to that enfeebling
state of mind but rather, on the other hand, to show
how to keep from falling into its shadows and also
how to overcome its habits. The majority of people
will resent the statement that fear is a habit, but
close observation proves to anyone that his fears
are governed by repeated thoughts, words, and ex-
periences. All fears rest upon thoughts, and if the
thought foundation can be broken up the fear will
vanish.
The mind imagines mountains of fears where no
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real cause for fear exists. We live in a world where
fear is taught as essential to safety. To begin with,
we are told from infancy to “fear ’ God; then to
fear evil in all its forms. With our mind crammed
with fear images working night and day, how can
we expect anything but the multitude of disasters
that follow.?
"Perfect love casteth out fear.” Jesus taught love
of God as the first commandment and love of neigh-
bor as the second; there was no need for any other
commandments. These two round out the law.
Then the one and only eflfective remedy for fear
and its ills is love.
We have all been told again and again that we
must love God and our fellow man in order to ful-
fill the law of our being. Doubtless most of us have
done this and have had the experience of very pro-
nounced demonstrations of peace and protection in
our life, yet we do not have that consciousness of
love which we feel we should have when we think
of God. There must be a reason for this deficiency,
and there is. We have thought of love to God in
terms of something of immense size, something that
we must encompass as a whole, when the fact is
that love is a composite. It is made up of attributes,
as is made clear by Paul in I Corinthians,
According to Paufi love is the name of a great
variety of little commonplace activities of everyday
life. Are you patient and kind? "Love suffereth
long, is kind.” Envious? "Love envieth not.”
Egotistical and proud? "Love vaunteth not itself, is
TEACH US TO PRAY
not puffed up.” Are you temperamental.? Love "doth
not behave itself unseemly.” Are you grasping and
selfish? Love "seeketh not its own.” Do you give
way easily to your temper? Love ''is not provoked.”
Do you behold evil as real and agonize over the
evils of the world? Love "taketh not account of
evil.” Do you rejoice when disaster overtakes evil
persons and exclaim, "They got just what was com-
ing to them?” "Love . . . rejoiceth not in unright-
eousness, but rejoiceth with the truth.” Do you pa-
tiently bear "the whips and scorns of time” ? "Love
. . . beareth all things.” Are you open-minded and
receptive to good, whatever its source? "Love . . .
believeth all things.” Do you anticipate the future
with fear and forebodings? "Love . . . hopeth all
things.” Do you endure with trust and confidence in
eternal justice
"The oppressor’s wrong, the proud man’s contumely,
The pangs of despised love, the law’s delay,
The insolence of office and the spurns
That patient merit of the unworthy takes”?
Love "endureth ail things.” Paul says: "If I speak
with the tongues of men and of angels, but have
hot love, I am become sounding brass or a clanging
cymbal. And if I have the gift of prophecy, and
know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have
all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not
love, I am nothing. ... But now abideth faith,
hope, love, these three: and the greatest of these
is love.”
CASTING OUT FEAR
Nowhere in all literature do we find as clear an
analysis of love as here in this 13th chapter of
I Corinthians, Those who have taken it as a guide
to character discipline — ^that is, seeking to fashion
their daily thinking by the standards set forth —
have attained results so pronounced that they have
been convinced of its being a panacea for all who
are suffering from the ravages of distorted, God-
less love.
/" The one and only remedy for the crosscurrents of
fear is the restoration of the peace and harmony
of life by love and its combinations.
spiritual Hearing
I give ear to Thee and now realize Tliy life
in all my members, for Thou art my health
unfailing.
My mind is full of Thy substance, and my
prosperity is always manifest in abundance.
T he scriptures are rich in references to the
listening ear. "He that planted the ear, shall
he not hear.?”
Jesus said, “What I tell you in the darkness, speak
ye in the light; and what ye hear in the ear, proclaim
upon the house-tops.” "He that hath ears to hear let
him hear.”
In many places the Bible indicates the ear re-
ferred to is not the physical organ but the listening
mind or spirit, “Having ears, hear ye not?”
Then the question arises. Do we have ears that
■can hear “overtones” from which the mind can
obtain meanings superior to those of the senses?
In every walk of life are those who stoutly claim
that they hear voices and sounds, musical and other-
wise, inwardly or apparently with another set of
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ears. Sometimes these persons are geniuses and
sometimes they are classed as "queer.”
Physiology describes a complicated physical ear,
but the "ear” that conceives and really hears is the
auditory center in the brain. It is here the mind
grasps and analyzes the sound vibrations. Thus
musical people may have the same physical ears
as the unmusical, but their minds have listened for
the fine variations of sound and have given the
auditory area in the brain a composer’s ego. The
great Beethoven was a brilliant example. He was
stone-deaf when he composed some of the most
beautiful music of the world. But his "inner ear”
must have been open to music that is not heard by
everyone.
What is true in music is also true in every religion,
art, and science. Little Samuel heard the voice of
the Lord. Joan of Arc heard militant voices. Modern
psychics and many who are deeply religious hear
voices, or sounds that they translate into voices, in
their cerebral cortex. It is the bent of the mind
that determines the character of the voice. Job said
in substance that there is a spirit or mind in man
that gives the breath or vibrations of the Almighty
understanding.
Practice giving ear or listening with your mind to
the Lord. You will acquire the ability to make con-
tact with the mind radiations of Christ and concen-
trate them in your mind and actually hear His voice.
On the contrary, by a like concentration of thought
you can attract the mind of persons both in and out
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of the body and thereby become a psychic and
medium. Excessive meditation on things spiritual
also often dulls the receptivity of the outer ear
and it loses its alertness.
Shakespeare says, "Give every man thy ear, but
few thy voice”; that is, learn to listen rather than
talk. Jesus called His first disciple Simon Peter.
Simon means "hearing” and Peter "a rock.” Spir-
. itual receptivity is the basis of a solid character. We
ail need a fuller realization of life in order to be
healthy. This can be attained by concentrating our
’attention on the universal life radiations and in-
jCorporating them into our mind and body.
This world of matter has its origin in a radiant
substance that our mind conceives and automatically
translates into flesh and physical things. The process
is so gradual that we do not realize it, but modern
science is daily approaching an explanation that will
eventually be universally accepted; then what we
are teaching from the spiritual side will be con-
firmed by the physical.
Light of Life
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' By Thy light and life I am strengthefled acid
healed.
I ''Every good gift and every perfect gift”
? cometh from above, from the Father of light,
and I am in all ways prospered.
B ible writers use the word “light” to repre-
sent intelligence. When Jesus said, “I am the
light of the world,” He undoubtedly meant
that He was the expresser of Truth in all of its
aspects. In the 1st chapter of John light and Truth
are synonymous.
“There was the true light, epen the light which
lighteth every man, coming into the world.” This
does not mean that He was the light of all those
who come into the physical world, but of those who
are born of Spirit into the world of reality. Those
who live in physical consciousness regard the light
as a radiation of the sun through which people dis-
cern the outline of things. But within this light
that chases away the darkness is a principle hidden
from the sense man. “And the light shioeth in the
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darkness; and the darkness apprehended it not.”
Materiality is unillumined and has no power in
itself to overcome its ignorance. So all attempts of
intellect to lift man and the human family to higher
states of consciousness will prove futile. There must
; be an influx of spiritual energy and inspiration from
‘ the "Father of lights.”
Yet it is interesting to note how the discoveries
of modern science are demonstrating phases of
truth without bringing forth a single principle that
will raise man spiritually. For example, light has
been probed to its physical source and properties
have been revealed of a world that was nonexistent
to the physical man. Yet with all the marvelous
know'ledge acquired about light no quality has been
revealed that man can apply to his moral or health-
restoring needs. The argument that light is a prop-
erty of electricity that is being successfully applied
to heal human ills is not borne out by facts.
Yet the Scriptures treat light and intelligence as
one. In the very first chapter of the Bible we are
told that Mind became manifest as light. "And
God said, Let there be light: and there was light.”
But the mind that judges according to appearance
never discerns the inner truth about light or any-
thing else.
^ We must know the Truth about the omnipresence
: of the one intelligence in the light; then we shall
; be made free from our intellectual darkness. Science
; agrees with James that '‘every good gift and every
perfect gift is from above, coming down from the
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Father of lights.” Science says light is a very orderly
and exceedingly productive wave motion in the
ether, but science does not tell us that light is God
: intelligence in action and that we can link our mind
with the light and reap the benefit of its marvelous
potentialities.
Some Christian metaphysicians are shy about us-
ing the scientists’ approach to their problems, fearing
that they themselves will fall into a materialistic
i trend of thought. However when we see scientists
; telling in physical terms of the properties of God-
: Mind, needing only to add the assumption of an
i intelligent moving power, we have found the co-
I operation of a very earnest and convincing lot of
I truth seekers.
So do not be afraid of the true physical scientist,
but give his discoveries the light of mind. Then you
will find that substance and life will become more
obedient to your word of command.
Remember that Moses received his great com-
mand from Jehovah when he turned aside to see why
the bush that burned was not consumed. Jehovah
: spoke to him “out of the midst of the bush”; that is,
God was in the fire that lighted an ordinary bush.
Open your mind to the light of Spirit wherever you
are. See with the eye of the mind that God is omni-
present Spirit, "over all, and through all, and in all.”
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Thought Substance
The Spirit of truth floods me with the light
of life, and I am made whole.
The Spirit of truth reveals abundant Spirit
substance, which I affirm to be the source
of my prosperity.
\ GAIN the Spirit o£ truth opens our mind to
/\ God’s law of supply and support, to the
/ \ existence of a universal etheric thought sub-
stance prepared for man’s body sustenance by infinite
Mind. We have thought that in answer to our
prayers God in some mysterious manner brought
about the marvelous demonstrations that we had.
Now we see that there has been prepared from the
beginning an interpenetrating substance that, like a
tenuous bread of heaven, showers us with its abun-
dance.
But we must not only ask but bring the Spirit into
consciousness by affirming its abundance to be the
source of our prosperity. Then prosperity will be-
gin to be manifested right in the face of apparent
lack. Remember the invitation of the Master ‘ 'Hith-
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erto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and
ye shall receive, that your joy may be made full.”
When we greatly desire to be just and honest and
in ail ways to express only that which is true under
the divine law, our soul radiates energy waves into
the ether that produce the color blue. The aura
around the bodies of sincere, honest persons is
usually bright blue or some modification of blue.
Blue is nearly always associated with white in rep-
resenting spiritual ideals. The birth of Jesus was
heralded by a bright star in the blue vault of heaven,
and the stars in our American flag have a blue
background.
Some persons think that when they quit lying
they are demonstrating Truth. This is commendable,
but falls short of fulfilling the complete reformation
of the Spirit of truth. In the Gospel of John Jesus
repeats in chapter after chapter the promise that He
will send to those who believe on Him a Comforter,
whom He calls "the Spirit of truth.” In the 15th
chapter we read, "But when the Comforter is come,
whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the
Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father,
he shall bear witness of me.” In the l6th chapter
we find these words: "I have yet many things to say
unto you, but ye cannot bear them now. Howbeit
when he, the Spirit of tmth, is come, he shall guide
you into all the truth.” "And I will pray the Father,
and he shall give you another Comforter, that he
may be with you for ever, even th^ of truth
. . . for he abideth with you, and shall be in you,”
TEACH US TO PRAY
Never in the history of the world have there been
so many religious cults as now. It is ”Lo, here! or,
There” the world round. To one who is not well
grounded in the fundamental principles of Truth
this is ail very confusing. Jesus warned us to beware
of man-made religions: "Go not ... after themJ’
"The kingdom of God cometh not with observa-
tion.” "The kingdom of God is within you.”
By exercise of his innate independence man lost
his awareness of Spirit and was consequently cast
out of the Garden of Eden or "paradise of God.”
Those of us who are getting an understanding of the
divine law are becoming aware again of the Spirit
that rules in this wonderful kingdom of the mind.
The Spirit of truth is the mind of God in its ex-
ecutive capacity; it carries out the divine plan of the
originating Spirit. It proceeds from the Father and
bears witness of the Son. We have in the operation
of our own mind an illustration of how Divine
Mind works. When an idea is fully formulated in
our mind and we decide to carry it out, our thoughts
change their character from contemplative to ex-
ecutive. We no longer plan, but proceed to execute
what we have already planned. So God-Mind sends
forth its Spirit to carry out in man the divine idea
imaged in the Son.
It is very comforting to know that there is a
Spirit co-operating widi us in our efforts to mani-
fest God’s law. God in His divine perfection has
seemed so far removed from our human frailties
that we have lost heart. But now we see that Jesus
THOUGHT SUBSTANCE
taught that God is intimately associated with us in
ail our life’s problems and that we need only ask
in His name in order to have all fulfilled.
The Spirit of truth is God’s thought projecting
into our mind ideas that will build a spiritual con-
sciousness like that of Jesus, The Spirit of truth
watches every detail of our life, and when we ask
and by affirmation proclaim its presence, it brings
new life into our body and moves us to observe
hygienic and dietary laws that restore health.
Intensified Zeal
The zeal of God quickens, vivifies, and vital-
izes both mind and body and makes me
every whit whole.
My zeal for spiritual things increases, and I
am abundantly prospered, praise God!
P ERSONS with poise and purpose, holding them-
selves well in hand, regard with some sus-
picion those who are unduly zealous. When
zeal runs away with judgment, energy is wasted and
confidence blasted. The fires o£ zeal are soon burned
out and the cause and its champion may be slight-
ingly referred to as ‘’flashes in the pan." Neverthe-
less, zeal, intensity, enthusiasm, is essential to the
achievement of any and every great purpose.
We usually judge zeal by the noise it makes. But
noise is not characteristic of the zeal that overcomes
seemingly insurmountable obstacles and wheels them
into line with its quiet yet mighty energy of pur-
pose. When you see men and women worMng
steadily and unselfishly toward some cherished goal,
do not conclude that They are moved by some selfish
INTENSIFIED ZEAL
motive, the attainment of which will give them
personal pleasure. They are fired by an impulse o£
soul that boils with an inward flame and urges
them onward, regardless of the outer mind of cau-
tion and conservatism.
The trait of man named variously zeal, enthu-
siasm, intensity of soul, is a prime faculty of spir-
itual man. It is found in one of the disciples of the
type man Jesus, and its character is revealed in his
name, Simon the Zealot.
Zeal’s throne or center of activity in the body is at
the base of the brain, in the medulla. It is the seat
of the animal soul, and its office is to vaporize the ;
fine nerve fluid and distribute it to the senses. The
medulla performs in the body the work of the car-
buretor in a motorcar.
; An intense desire to carry out some idea forces
5 the nerve fluid into the medulla, where it is atomized ;
' with inspiration (air) and then flared through the
optic nerve to the eye, where the Spirit ignites it,
; and it flashes into light. "It is die Spirit that giveth
‘ life.”
When the Spirit moves a man from within to
the accomplishment of some dierished ideal and
the intellect steps in and says it can’t be done, a
conflict ensues and the natural flow of the volatile
body is impeded. Congestions and clots form in the
cirailation, the man gradually slows down, and
what are called the marks of old age appear. This
is why man should never give up the quest for
greater and better expression of God-given abilities.
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The hop, skip, and jump, the buoyancy and joy of
youth, should be cultivated and continued more
enthusiastically as the years advance. The idea that
man grows feeble with years is a foolish fallacy. The
longer one lives the better one should know how
to live.
The attention of the followers of Jesus in the
regeneration is called to the many lessons and warn-
ings that He gave regarding man’s zeal for com-
mercialism. He rebuked Satan, the adverse mind,
for suggesting that He demonstrate how to turn
stones into bread. He warned, "Lay not up for
yourselves treasures upon the earth." One of His
earliest works was putting the commercial activities
out of His body temple. "Take these things hence;
make not my Father’s house a house of merchandise."
Then His disciples remembered that it was writ-
ten, "Zeal for thy house shall eat me up." Jesus ex-
plained that the "house" He referred to was His
body. He was cleansing His body of a dominant
race thought, the desire to accumulate money.
The people of the world today are so zealous for
the solution of economic problems that they have
forgotten God. They do not ask for wisdom to
guide them in the nation’s industrial affairs, but
they plan and sclieme and wrangle and get deeper
and deeper in debt; that is, into the clutches of the
beast of greed that puts its mark of slavery upon
f all who worship it.
j Be zealous for spiritual realities. Lay up for your-
* selves treasures in die heavens.
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My understanding of Truth reveals the un-
reality of sickness and the reality of health.
I am radiant with the understanding that
abiding health is my divine inheritance.
My understanding of the omnipresence of
elemental substance opens the door to a con-
tinuous inflow of superabundance into my
mind and affairs.
I ACK OF understanding, not only individual but
collective, confronts us on every side. We
blunder tlirough life instead of walking con-
fidently, open-eyed. Or we sit in the City of Inde-
cision waiting for something to turn up when, urged
; and guided by the inner light, we should be going
forth to meet good fortune.
We never weary of quoting that wise observa-
■ tion of Job’s "There is a spirit in man, and the
, breath of the Almighty giveth them understanding.”
Most persons think that understanding is gained by
intellectual development, mostly in institutions of
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learning. But the Book o£ Job was written by one
who had great understanding but no literary de-
grees, so far as is known. Some authorities claim
the book is at least five thousand years old; but
Job knew much about Spirit both in Jehovah and
in man. In the passage quoted he uses the pronoun
'‘them” instead of "he” in referring to man, thus
revealing that he understood the spiritual nature of
man to be dual: male and female. Job’s familiarity
with Spirit and spiritual laws is evidence to a meta-
physician that he gained his understanding direct
from Spirit. Jesus taught, "It is the spirit that giveth
, life.”
, We would not belittle intellectual knowledge if
I it is acquired under the guidance of Spirit. The one
land only object of man’s existence is the develop-
I ment of his soul, and any attainment, whether men-
; tal or material, that cannot be associated with and
; counted as an aid toward that end will ultimately
be refused. So it is the concentration of the mind
, upon Spirit that reveals the truth about the many
situations that meet us in our daily contacts. If we
, count heafth and disease as equal, the "thought
stuff” of our mind will animate them with like
potency. We shall find ourselves believing that dis-
ease is just as real and far more catching than health.
Yet a moment’s analysis of the relation between
disease and health shows that health is the real, the
God-given condition, and disease the unreal, the
abnormal, from which we are all seeking to escape.
Truth not only shows the reality at the core of all
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. things; it also shows that we shall never escape
from the unreal so long as we allow our mental
' processes to clothe it with "thought stuff.”
If you deny disease as devoid of reality and
affirm health as spiritual and abiding, the Spirit
will bear witness with your spirit and you will dem-
onstrate health.
Daily concentration of mind on Spirit and its
; attributes reveals to man that the elemental forces
; that make matter are here in the ether awaiting
; our recognition and appropriation. It is not neces-
i sary to know all the details of the scientific law in
; order to demonstrate prosperity. Go into the silence
daily at a stated time and concentrate on the sub-
; stance of Spirit prepared for you from the founda-
: tion of the world. You will thus open up a current
; of thought that will bring prosperity into your
affairs.
Joy Radiates Health
The joy of Jesus Christ sets me free, and I
am healed.
I rejoice as 1 realize Thine all-providing plan
now fulfilled in me.
N ow WE HAVE reports of a sanitarium where
laughter is the only healing remedy. Time
was when such an institution would not
only have been subject to the ridicule of the com-
munity but its promoters would doubtless have come
under the insanity regulations. But now that not
only psychology but medical therapy is giving atten-
tion to the effect of the emotions on the health, the
systematic cultivation of joy is looked upon favor-
ably as a healing agent.
; "A glad heart maketh a cheerful countenance;
But by sorrow of heart the spirit is broken.”
Solomon or some other wise author of Proverbs
wrote that thousands of years ago, and it is good
, doctrine today. The historical records of the race
go back about six thousand years, and it is found
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that people have changed vety little in their domi-
nant characteristics during that time. Solomon, re-
puted the wisest man of his age, rendered his judg-
ments from the testimony of the emotions rather
than the facts as they were given in his court. The
Bible tells of his appeal to the love of the two
women who claimed the same infant as their child,
calling for a sword to divide it so that each woman
might receive half. The real mother begged that
the sword should be not used, and of course the
case was decided in her favor.
Legend says that Solomon amazed the Queen of
Sheba by his quick solution of problems that she
proposed. She dressed a group of boys and girls in
exactly the same clothes and demanded that he tell
the sex of each. He ordered basins of water for
them to wash their hands in. The boys all plunged
their hands in the water and got sodden cuffs, while
the girls carefully rolled up their sleeves. Then a
combination of real and artificial flowers were
brought in; the queen demanded that Solomon point
out the difference. He sent for a swarm of bees and
readily made a decision. The queen was so pleased
with Solomon’s wisdom that she made him a love
offering equal to three hundred and sixty thousand
dollars.
In our modern practice of spiritual healing we
find sadness and sorrow to be the cause of many
physical ills. We also find that happiness is natural
to man and that he can release it from his inner
life through an understanding of Truth.
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The study of the spiritual side of life awakens in
mind, and even in body, emotions that convince one
of the reality and eternal continuity of life, regard-
less of the changes that take place in outer mani-
festation.
Isaiah had a consciousness of this when he wrote
in the 35th chapter of his book: "And the ran-
somed of Jehovah shall return, and come with sing-
ing unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon
their heads; they shall obtain gladness and joy, and
sorrow and sighing shall flee away.”
Zion represents spiritual peace, a peace that comes
to those who attain an understanding and conscious-
ness of Spirit and its activities in the soul.
Sorrow used to be considered a virtue among
religious people, but this notion is being dissolved
among the enlightened. Death has been the greatest
source of sorrow, but evidence that the soul con-
tinues to live after it leaves the body is being pro-
duced from so many sources that the sense of sepa-
ration is being rapidly removed, and many people
now believe that we continue to exist as thinking
entities whether in the body or out of tlie body.
Of all men who have lived on earth Jesus un-
derstood best the joy of the spiritual life, and He
had the power of imparting that joy.
"He shall weep and lament, but the world shall
rejoice: ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall
be turned into joy.” "These things have I spoken
unto you that my joy may be in you, and that your
joy may be made full.”
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"Selah!”
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I have set the Lord always before my face^
therefore my heart is glad and my flesh
resteth in confidence.
I have faith in Thee as my unfailing resourcCj
and I am in all ways prospered.
U HAVE SET Jehovah always before me:
I Because he is at my right hand, I shall not
JL be moved.
Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth;
My flesh also shall dwell in safety.”
The Psalms constituted the hymnbook of the early
church, and no finer example of religious fervor
and devotion and literary excellence can be found
in the lyrics of any people.
Although the author of the Psalms is usually re-
ferred to as David, that great poet and musician is
by critics credited with considerably less than half
of the one hundred and fifty hymns that appear in
our Bible.
Psalm means “lyric,” and the heading of each in-
dicates to the musician what attitude of devotion
should precede its rendition, “Selah” is the most
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common heading. Bible authorities are not all agreed
as to its precise meaning, but a very general opinion
is that it means "pause,” "silence,” "to be still.”
But why pause before the music has even begun?
Just here is where an understanding of spiritual
law helps one. Before any act that involves direct
appeal to God tliere should be a silent recognition
of God’s presence, of Jehovah-shammah, "The Lord
is present,” which is one of the sacred names of
Jehovah.
In all our prayers, talks, and songs with God as
the subject, we should first have a period of silence,
a selah, in which the divine presence is invoked
as the creative power. Then we can proclaim with
Jesus, "I speak not from myself: but the Father
abiding in me doeth his works.” The heading of
Psalm 16 is "Michtam of David.” One authority
says michtam means "gold,” another "excellence,”
and still another "mystery.” It means all of these
and more. Beginning at verse 8, we have a prophecy
of the supreme overcoming demonstrated by Jesus:
i "I have set Jehovah always before me:
i Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be
’ moved.”
Jehovah is the name of the supermind in man
and is called the Christ in the New Testament.
; Give first place in all your thoughts and acts to this
; all-powerful presence and you will realize the "right
: hand” of guidance and steadfast conviction,
i A “glad” heart speeds up the circulation and
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sweeps eflfete matter from the blood stream; thea
the flesh rests in confidence and health appears.
The prosperity word is one that we have often
used in our Unity thought ministry during the past
fifty years. Some of you may cast it aside as thread-
bare, but don’t be hasty. You may have used it many
times, with varying degrees of success, but no one
has exhausted its possibilities.
The producing power of a word depends upon
the ability of its user to uncover its inner meaning
and apply it to his particular needs. When you use
the word ”Thee,” do you think what its antecedent
is? You will quickly say "God,” but "God” covers
a multitude of creative forces. In this case you are
working to bring prosperity into your affairs; hence
you should fill your mind with images and ideas
of the all-providing, all-supplying One. Andent
Hebrew seers and adepts like Moses and Elijah
understood this, and they had seven sacred names
for Jehovah, each of which represented Him in His
specific creative ability.
Jehovah-jireh means "Jehovah will provide,” and
anyone who concentrates his mind on this mighty
One and persistently afiirms His presence and power
visible and invisible will be provided for regardless
of any opposing circumstances. Should the Lord
seem to be absent, use the hidden name of this
mighty presence, Jehovah-shammah ("the Lord is
present”), and you will soon feel the dynamic life
and substance of creative Mind charging the ether
with its living productiveness.
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I separate myself in consciousness front the
mind of the flesh, that I may enter into the mind
that was in Christ Jesus.
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T ffls affirmation is a good one to take into the
inner consciousness, and we would emphasize
the word "consciousness.” This whole matter
of soul unfoldment depends upon the consciousness
that we have.
We have no independent mind — there is only
universal Mind — but we have consciousness in that
Mind, and we have control over that consciousness.
We have control over our own thoughts, and our
j thoughts fill our consciousness. By analyzing our-
; selves we find that we unconsciously separate our
I self into different personalities. Now we should
; do this work consciously. We should enter into the
I understanding that the I AM power (all power) is
1 given unto us in consciousness, and then join or
■ unify this consciousness with the great Christ mind.
Thus the central idea in this word of affirmation
that we are seeking to understand and to incor-
porate into our consciousness is the Christ mind.
As spiritual metaphysicians we find that the Christ
mind is the mind of the Spirit. In the consciousness
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o£ man it functions as two states of consciousness:
one in tlie flesh, the other in the Spirit. But the mind
i of the Spirit is the source of all.
In daily worship it is well to impress upon the
sensitive mind that it is unified with Divine Mind
through Christ, through the same mind that was
in Christ Jesus.
Understanding this as the basic principle of our
thought and realizing the power of thought to im-
press itself upon the sensitive plate of man’s mind,
we find this prayer invaluable:
[ 1 separate myself m consciousness from the
I mind of the flesh, that 1 may enter into the mind
! that teas in Christ Jesus.
First we disentangle our thoughts from the flesh
and lift our consciousness up to Spirit. We hold
them steady in spiritual consciousness until they be-
gin to get hold of Spirit essence, Spirit power,
Spirit love. Everything that we see in the manifest
comes from this one Spirit-mind; so it is well to
hold this affirmation until the most sacred ethers
respond to our realization:
.. I separate myself in consciousness from the
mind of the flesh, that I may enter into the mind
that was in Christ Jesus.
When considering the value of prayer and real-
ization we call to mind the case of Jacob and Esau
receiving the blessing of their father Isaac,
It was customary to give the first-born the prior
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blessing, and this blessing of the first-born belonged
to Esau. But through the connivance of the mother,
Rebekah, and Jacob himself, Jacob got the blessing,
and of course by a subterfuge. The procedure was
really a dishonest one, and Esau was wroth with
his brother Jacob for taking his blessing and threat-
ened his life. The mother advised Jacob to fiee to
the country of her brother Laban, and Jacob imme-
diately set out on his journey. He was however in
a wilderness of thought.
As metaphysical Christians we take this Scripture
to be a spiritual history of man as well as a history
of outer events. We try to read it in the spirit ap-
propriate to it. Spiritual things must be spiritually
discerned. The Bible is a spiritual book. We arrive
at a greater understanding and enhance our interest
in the different characters of Jacob and Esau when
we look upon them not only as individuals but as
representatives of the race as a whole.
If we study the four characters of Isaac, Jacob,
Esau, and Rebekah, we find that they represent
dominant ideas in man, ideas that pertain to his
very being, that are of vital interest. As we read
out of the law we find that Esau — a hunter, a person
subservient to his bodily appetites, a man of the
flesh — represents tlie flesh, the body. A person of
a little different turn of mind, a man who loved
home and the quiet spiritual things of life, Jacob rep-
resents the mind, the intellectual man.
Of course in the process of evolution the natural
man comes first. Then the spiritual man begins to
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unfold in us. Here in the Bible story we find that the
spiritual man, or rather the intellectual man illu-
mined by Spirit, gets the blessing. The Israelites set
great store by this blessing. Rightly understood, a
blessing is a great source of inspiration. It lays a
firm foundation in the mind, and it brings out the
good. A curse sees the evil and emphasizes it; but
a blessing sees only the good and emphasizes only
the good. Thus we come to see the importance for
the soul’s evolution of an understanding of the
development of these two Biblical characters.
As we look at the blessing that Isaac gave Jacob
and Esau — for he did bless Esau after he had blessed
Jacob, though he gave Esau the blessing that would
bring out his character — we discover that he was
governed by law. The blessing he gave Jacob was
one upon the mind and not upon the body; in fact,
it was a blessing of the part of the race mind con-
cerned with service, the part that has to do with the
exercise of authority.
In this blessing there is a calling forth of those
inherent faculties of the mind which enter into the
exercise of authority. “Let people serve thee.” The
mind dominates the body. “Let . . . nations bow
down to thee.” We also see nations being dictated
to by some mind, some dictator.
“Let thy mother’s sons bow down to thee:
Cursed be every one that curseth thee,
And blessed be every one that blesseth thee.”
Here we can see the power of ideas to bless or to
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curse. We see that he who uses his mind to curse
gets the curse in return, while the mind that blesses
receives blessings in return.
If we study our mind we find that it is radiating
energy constantly and that whatever we send out
comes back. This is true of tire mind of man, and
we see it in evidence everywhere, not only indi-
vidually but collectively.
To Esau Isaac said,
"Behold, of the fatness of the earth shall be thy
dwelling.
And of the dew of heaven from above;
And by thy sword shait thou live, and thou shalt
serve thy brother.”
Here in these symbols we have the body man or man
of the flesh. "The fatness of the earth shall be thy
dwelling”: man lives very close to the earth. "And
by thy sword shalt thou live”: the man of flesh is
sent forth by the man of the mind to carry out his
warring ideas. Intellectual man is the general or the
governor or the dictator that sends the man of the
flesh to do his biddings.
"And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt break
loose,
That thou shalt shake his yoke from off thy neck.”
In the evolution of man, the body (Esau) finally
comes into its own. The Isaac blessing is carried out
in the v/orld today. We find that the working classes
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that have been under the yoke o£ the intellect—
the intellectual man — ^now are beginning to assert
themselves. They are breaking loose from the yoke
of bondage to the intellect, the mind; the flesh is
beginning to assert itself. We are giving more at-
tention to the flesh every day. People are awaking
to the fact that the body is an important part of
man, and so we see everywhere the fulflllment of
this blessing.
If we study ourselves, we find a tendenq^ toward
the working out of the two minds. The tendenqr of
the intellect is to dominate, to have its way and
ignore the body. But the body is beginning to break
loose from this bondage and demand its own. It is
saying to us: "Why, I am a very important part of
this world. You can’t leave me and go off to some
faraway place. I am an important part of you." So
with Esau the flesh begins to break loose from this
dominance of the mind that has separated it from
the good things of the heavenly estate. We raise it
up, and it begins to become a power in the world.
We must soon come to a place in our national,
social, and economic evolution where the earth and
all that it has will be recognized in a larger way,
become an integral part of our life. This is very
clearly taught in this story of the mind and the
heart. Isaac (the I am) recognized this unity and
brought it into expression in his blessings of his two
sons.
We have these two "sons," the mind and the
body. It is the mind that connects us with Principle.
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Jacob made this connection, but Esau had as yet
failed to come to the place where he could recog-
nize that he was a son of God. Jacob took that
blessing from him. He became the sole representative
when he was really the secondary one, but he forged
ahead in the race; and so we have today the in-
tellect dominating almost everything. It is evident
.that the Jacob faculty (the illumined intellect) has
assumed its prerogative in the world today. The
illumined intellect rules. God is omnipresent, God
, is intelligence, just as much in our mind as any-
where. The blessing of the I am consciousness brings
out the intelligence that has the greatest ruling
' power. But we find that we must also bless the body
as well as everything connected with it.
As we study the Bible we find that after he broke
away from the material consciousness Jacob had
many experiences. He went into another state of
consciousness (another country), in which he was
awakened spiritually to a still higher plane. In the
; 16th verse of the 28th chapter of Genesis we read:
"And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said,
Surely Jehovah is in this place; and I knew it not.”
.He was in the sleeping state of consciousness. He
had a dream and saw a ladder extending from the
earth up into heaven and angels or messengers of
, God ascending and descending it. Jehovah was at
the top of this ladder, and He told Jacob that he
was to be the father of a great nation and that a
certain blessing was to be poured out upon him.
.When Jacob awoke he saw that God was in the
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place where he was; that the place was the very
"house of God,” the dwelling place of God.
In other words, here was evidence of omnipres-
ence. Each individual must have his first awakening
to the truth that God is everywhere and that, what-
ever may be the place, God is there as omnipresent
Spirit-mind. In this instance Jacob was surrounded
i by rocky hills, and he piled up stones and made an
, altar to Jehovah right there. The great lesson for
! us is that God is everywhere, no matter how material
i the surroundings may seem to be. To the unregener-
;ate man there is usually a great awakening in an
experience of this kind.
When man begins to see beneath the surface and
i to realize that God is with him constantly, he seeks
! to make a union with infinite Mind, omnipresent
■ God-Mind. The Scripture reads: "And Jacob vowed
I a vow, saying. If God will be with me, and will
: keep me in this way that I go, and will give me
! bread to eat, and raiment to put on, so that I come
again to my father’s house in peace, and Jehovah
will be my God, then this stone, which I have set up
for a pillar, shall be God’s house: and of all tliat
thou shait give me I will surely give the tenth unto
thee.”
Here was a covenant or an agreement made by a
man at the moment of his first great illumination as
regards the one omnipresent substance. He may
have realized before that God was the great I am,
the Jehovah, leading him, but he did not realize tiiat
this earthly substance, the rocks about him, were
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realiy representative: that they are a part, a living
part, of the God substance; that the I AM man in his
illumination has a share in that substance; that it is
his substance through infinite Mind. The covenant
of Jacob to give one tenth of all his increase was
the real beginning of what in modern times we call
tithing: making God a partner in all our finances.
Jacob became a great financier of the ancient
world, and through the illumination that he got
from Jehovah he knew how to take advantage of
every opportunity.
We do not take Jacob as an example of how
man should handle his finances, for he was some-
thing of a trickster. In truth he represents the trickery
and cunning of the world in this field. But appar-
ently Jehovah, the one Mind, was with him. Some-
times there are contradictions that we cannot always
understand; but when we know that we are the
directive power as regards all that belongs to us,
we may get on financially. But in the end there is
an adjustment, illustrated in the meeting of Jacob
. and Esau at the ford Jabbok
But with it ail Jacob loved Jehovah and shared
his wealth with the Lord. He proved the law of
tithing, that tithing is one of the foundation prin-
ciples of financial success. Man can become a great
possessor of the substance of this world if he fol-
lows certain rules of tithing. Jacob gives us the key,
which is the recognition that God is all substance,
and that if man wants to handle this substance wisely
and well, if he wants to handle it for great material
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success, he should do what Jacob did: take God into
partnership with him.
There is an omnipresent economic Mind, and if
a man begins to deal with this economic Mind he
will have a partner that has all resources.
If you want to become a rich man, if you want
i to be possessed of every good thing in the world,
take God as your partner, incorporate His mind
: into your mind, in your daily giving. Give of your
; substance with the thought that it is God's money
; you are handling. Realize that it is His tenth that
you are giving for His glory. With this thought in
your mind you will begin to attract new spiritual re-
sources, and things will begin to open up in your
aRairs. You will Imow that infinite Mind is with
: you. That is what Jacob realized, and he attained
great success in his affairs, I would say to everyone
who wishes to demonstrate prosperity: take God into
partnership with you and you will demonstrate
abundance.
The Sevenfold Cleansing
Go and wash in the Jordan seven times, and
thy flesh shall come again to thee, and thou shalt
be clean.
T he 5th chapter of II Kings relates the healing
of Naaman by Elisha. Naaman was the cap-
tain of the hosts of Syria, but he was a leper.
The Syrians had brought away captive out of the
land of Israel a little maiden, who waited on Naa-
man’s wife. She said to her mistress, "Would that
my lord were with the prophet that is in Samaria!
then would he recover him of his leprosy.”
The incident was told to the king of Syria and
he sent a letter, with presents of silver, gold, and
raiment, to the king of Israel, requesting that he
heal his general, Naaman. When the king of Israel
read the letter he rent his clothes and said, "Am I
God, to kill and to make alive, that this man doth
send unto me to recover a man of his leprosy? but
consider, I pray you, and see how he seeketh a
quarrel against me.”
When Elisha heard of it he sent word, "Let him
come now to me, and he shall know that there is
a prophet in Israel.”
So Naaman came with his horses and with his
chariots, and stood at the door of the house of
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Elisha. And Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying,
"Go and wash in the Jordan seven times, and thy
flesh shall come again to thee, and thou shalt be
clean.”
But Naaman was wroth and went away and said,
"Behold, I thought, He will surely come out to me,
and stand, and call on the name o£ Jehovah his
God, and wave his hand over the place, and recover
the leper. Are not Abanah and Pharpar, the rivers o£
Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? may
I not wash in them, and be clean ?” So he turned and
went away in a rage.
And his servants came near and spoke to him
and said, "My father, if the prophet had bid thee do
some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it?
how much rather then, when he saith to thee, Wash,
and be clean?”
Then he went down and dipped himself seven
times in the Jordan, according to the saying of the
man of God; and his flesh came again like the flesh
of a little child, and he was clean.
This demonstration of spiritual healing doubtless
took place just as related, and again and again it
has been a source of encouragement to those who
have believed in the healing power of God. But
to all who read Scripture in the spirit this narrative
is rich in clues to a method of healing for all men
who can discern and use the law set in action by
Elisha.
Elisha is often referred to by the Bible com-
mentators as a forerunner of Jesus. His marvelous
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works are easily recognized as proceeding from
the same Spirit that inspired Jesus, and his gentle
ness and simplicity are paralleled only by those of
the great Master.
It is not difficult to see in Elisha an incarnation
of the Christ, and he was in a certain degree Christ
manifest. Jesus was a fuller manifestation of the
same Christ.
If we admit that Elisha is a type of Christ — that
is, of the Jehovah or supreme I am of man — we
should admit with equal readiness that the other
characters in the narrative are types of various
powers or traits common to all men.
Starting with a certain understanding of man in
the three departments of his being, spirit, soul, and
body, we discern Naaman to represent the will,
Syria the intellect, the king of Israel the ruling power
in the domain of intellectual thought. The "little
maiden" is representative of a rudimentary intui-
tion that has been captured by the intellect and is
being made to serve its ends. The river Jordan is the
life current flowing into man’s subconscious nature
from the one great life. This "river of life" is the
•source of the natural healing impulse that con-
stantly reconstructs and restores the organism.
The will through its conquests in the sense world
has gained the applause of men and is called
"great," "honorable," "mighty." This exaltation of
will stimulates the personal ego until it ignores any
power higher than itself. This supreme egotism
; stops the flow of spiritual life in the organism and
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body atrophy sets in. Pride and ambition cut the
invisible channels that connect soul and body with
the great river of life. The blood then loses its
elixir and the flesh its glow of health; decay of
skin and extremities follows and the man becomes
a leper.
The only remedy for the starved body is the re-
linquishment by the will of its haughty assumption
of dominion. No new life can flow in until the
will unclamps its aflSrmations of supremacy. All men
and women belong to the Naaman family, and no
one is wholly exempt from the limitations of per-
sonal will until he has said with Jesus Christ meek-
ness, "Not my will, but thine, be done,”
Intuition (the little feminine Israelite) points the
way to the representative of Jehovah who dwells
in Samaria. Personal will loves to make display of
worldly possessions and goes to the simple, un-
pretentious Elisha with a great retinue of servants,
horses, chariots, besides presents of silver, gold,
and rich raiment. He expects the prophet to call
upon his God, wave his hands over the place, and
make a great display in the healing. But the gentle
prophet tells him in his simple way to bathe in the
Jordan seven times. Naaman is wroth at being told
to do so slight a thing when he had come so far
at such a great outlay. He had expected the prophet
to recognize his exalted position and give him
special attention. To do such a puerile thing as to
bathe in an insignificant stream like the Jordan
filled him with indignation.
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Teachers of Truth ate constantly having to meet
this egotism of the personal will in their students.
The intellectual method of gaining knowledge is
so ponderous: so many books have to be studied
and so many things memorized that the simple
methods of Truth are considered childish. In mod-
ern medical practice a paralytic might be dosed,
serumed, X-rayed, and what not. Jesus healed such
i a case by simply saying, "Son, be of good cheer;
thy sins are forgiven."
Jesus said He accomplished this through the faith
of those who brought the sick to Him. There must
; be faith action before the forces that restore the
; life to the organism can be set in operation. The
laborious methods of the medical profession are all
; for the purpose of stimulating the healing forces
of nature. Nature is the servant of mind, and when
lawful thoughts are enthroned in consciousness, na-
ture restores the natural harmony existing between
spirit, soul, and body. When the use of right thoughts
and words is understood, nature’s work is so easily
accomplished that the intellectual man is nonplused
and shakes his head with incredulity; or he goes
away like Naaman, wroth at the seemingly crude
and unheard-of prescription. However Naaman’s
servants prevailed upon him to give Elisha’s remedy
a trial, and when he had bathed in the Jordan seven
times, "his flesh came again like unto the flesh of a
little child, and he Was clean.”
I The first step in all spiritual healing is faith, and
I the next is receptivity, ^^^ere the pride and fullness
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of inteilect is dominant there is little opportimity
for the subconscious stream of life to do its cleans-
ing work. The proud Naaman must first be humbled
before he can be healed, and the proud flesh be
taken out of his heart before the proud flesh can
be cured in his body.
Elisha apparently took no part in the healing,
simply directing Naaman to bathe in the Jordan
seven times. But there was a deep undercurrent of
Spirit power at work in Elisha. He represented the
higher self of the Naaman consciousness, which
’had been quickened. Jesus referred to this incident
in Luke 4:27: “There were many lepers in Israel in
the time of Elisha the prophet; and none of them
• was cleansed, but only Naaman the Syrian.”
Elisha told Naaman to bathe in the Jordan seven
times. Seven is a cardinal numeral and in ancient
times was regarded as having mystical significance,
that is, as symbolizing perfection, besides being
loosely used for any indefinite considerable number,
much as twenty or a hundred is used now. Peter used
it in this sense when he said, “How oft shall my
brother sin against me, and I forgive him ? until seven
times Jesus replied, “Until seventy times seven.”
Seven is so universally used as a mystical number
that there must be some reason for this in the fun-
damental arrangement of the natural world. In
Solomon’s Temple was the seven-branched candle-
stick. We know that this Temple represented the
body of man and that the seven lights were symbols
of seven centers in the organism, through which in-
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teliigence is expressed. Everybody knows five of
these centers; seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling,
touch. There are two in addition to these, which
we may call intuition and telepathy. The solar
plexus is the organism of intuition and the brain the
organ of telepathy.
All these centers of light have been dimmed
by sin. Hence sin has also been given a sevenfold
classification, viz., pride, anger, lust, covetousness,
envy, gluttony, sloth. The great purifying river of
life must wash away these sins and their leprosy in
the body. To bring this to pass man must deny in
sevenfold measure the darkness of error that ob-
scures the inner light and life. These seven wash-
ings are to be repeated until the whole body is clean.
The eye represents the discerning capacity of the
mind.
My eyes are no longer darkened by thotights of
deception, concealment, or lust. The cleansing
life and light of Spirit makes pure afid clean
I these eyes, and through all-seeing Mind I have
spiritual vision.
The ear represents the receptive capacity of the
mind.
■ My ears are no longer stopped by the sensitive-
\ness and will full ness of the little self. I am no
Xlonger bound by personality. 1 now bathe in
Hhe great ocean of life, and I am free in bound-
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less Spirit. 1 hear the voice of Truth only and
rejoice.
The nose represents the initiative capacity of the
mind.
The cleansing life of Spirit frees my mind of all
thoughts of fear, timidity, and incapacity. 1 am
bold, free, courageous Spirit, and I can do all
things through Christ.
The tongue represents the judging capacity of the
mind.
Sense appetite no longer clogs the clear discern-
ment of my spiritual judgmefit. The cleansing
life of Spirit quickens and cleanses my taste, and
I eat and drink only what my body requires
under divine law.
Feeling represents the loving capacity of the
mind.
1 am no longer in bondage to the thought that
sensation is in matter. The cleansing life of
Spirit dissolves all fleshly lust for seme pleasure.
I am Spirit, and I desire the clean, pure cur-
rents of life to flow through every part of my
body, so that all may be made clean.
Intuition is the natural knov/ing capacity of the
mind.
i The cleansing life of Spirit purifies my heart,
] and 1 trust the still small voice” within my soul.
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Telepathy is thought interchange.
Hhe cleansing life of Spirit clears my mind of
ignoraf2ce and materiality, and I see the activity
of ideas and understand their import inde-
pendently of human language. As God gave
Daniel ^'knowledge and skill in all learning and
wisdofrt: and . . . understanding in all visions
and dreams so Me gives me and all His chil-
dren the original ideas of His great mind to
use as we will.
Prayer and Faith
P RAYER is a science susceptible of being reduced
to rules that prove it to be based upon demon-
strable laws. The intellectual school of scien-
tists will not accept our claim of science for prayer,
because we operate in a field that they have not
investigated. However "there are more things in
heaven and earth . . . than are dreamt of" in their
philosophy.
We who are testing out the laws of prayer can-
not say with assurance that we have discovered and
applied all of them so clearly that we can teach
them to the multitude. The laws of prayer require
a spiritually developed mind to give them full ex-
pression; hence not all persons are at once com-
petent to cover the whole range of mental and
spiritual activity requisite to the unfailing demon-
stration of prayer. Jesus taught that whatever we
ask in prayer, believing, we shall receive.
So right at the beginning of our inquiry into sci-
entific prayer we find a very vital condition em-
phasized and demonstrated by Jesus in His most
effective prayers, and that is faith. We must have
faith, though it be merely of mustard-seed size,
before we can approach the fulfillment of the law
of prayer.
Faith is the most mysterious of the spiritual fac-
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ulties and has so far eluded the descriptive powers
of man. Many attempts have been made to describe
faith but with indifferent success. All spiritual meta-
physicians agree that faith is an apprehension by
man of a mind power that connects matter and
spirit. Faith handles ideas with a facility similar to
that with which we handle pumpkin seeds. We plant
the little seeds in good soil and watch them grow in
a few months into large pumpkins. This is as great
a miracle as any that Jesus performed, the differ-
ence being that it takes time and an adjustment
of material instead of spiritual conditions.
But the scientific operation of the law of mani-
festation is just as mysterious in the one case as in
the other. However we find that we can improve
the conditions conducive to growth in the natural
world, and it is good logic to assume that we can
improve on the ancient practices of prayer. Primi-
tive man had a sense of separation from his God.
He believed that through storm, lightning, thunder,
and earthquake his God was taking vengeance on
him for his misdeeds, and he prayed to be saved.
Then the most common form of prayer was the
prayer for favors and for vengeance on one’s ene-
mies. This form of prayer was popular among the
Israelites, as evidenced by their literature:
"Deliver me, O Jehovah, from mine enemies.”
"Hide me under the shadow of thy wings,
From the wicked that oppress me,
My deadly enemies, that compass me about.”
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Although we have progressed somewhat in our
attitude toward God the great majority of Chris-
tians are still begging a faraway God for favors.
What we ail need is a better understanding of the
principles at the very foundation of Being, of the
spiritual character of God, and especially of the
omnipresence of the spiritual principles. Then we
need to understand our relation to these spiritual
principles and what we have to do to make them
operative in our mind and aflfairs,
; We must know first that prayer is cumulative;
that the more we pray the more we accumulate of
the powerful spiritual energy which transforms in-
visible ideas into visible things. Paul said, "Pray with-
out ceasing.” Do not supplicate and beg God to give
you what you need, but realize, affirm, and absolutely
know that your supreme mind is functioning right
now in God-Mind itself and that your thought sub-
stance and the spiritual substance of the Most High
are amalgamated and blended into one perfect whole
that is now being made manifest in the very thing
you are asking for.
This is the modern technique of prayer, and it is
being demonstrated by quite a few devout souls in
this modern mechanical world. It is not emotional,
nor does its devotees expect miracles; on the contrary,
they apply the law of righteous thinking to a prob-
lem that has always been treated as outside the realm
of exact science.
Every science under the sun has progressed and
developed out of its early state of crudeness except
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the science of the true character of God and of our
relation to Him. Now the time has come for us
to improve our methods of worship and reduce
them to scientific mind laws. When we fully realize
that God is a great mind in which "we live, and
move, and have our being," we shall begin to use
our mind in consonance with the Mind omnipresent.
Then a supreme harmony will be ours, and prayer
will become a divine soliloquy. As the entrancing
music of the modern world has been developed from
the primitive shepherd’s playing his flute to his mate
and then falling in love with his own music, so we
shall unfold innate abilities of communion with
God and finally discover the divine harmony.
With this understanding then of the true char-
acter of prayer, let us give ourselves to prayer.
In its spiritual character our mind blends with
Divine Mind as the mist blends with the cloud.
Both are composed of the same elements and they
unite without friction if left to their natural afiinity.
But give "the mist" the power and ability of sepa-
ration and we have conditions that involve divisions
beyond enumeration. Man came out of God, is of
tlie same mind elements, and exists within the mind
of God always. Yet by thinking that he is separate
from omnipresent Spirit he has set up a mental state
of apartness from his source and he dwells in ig-
norance of that which is nearer to him than hands
and feet. A few moments of thought daily directed
toward God in acknowledgment of His presence
will convince anyone that tiiere is an intelligence
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always with us tliat responds to our thought when
we direct our attention to it Sometimes we auto-
matically make this high contact when our mind is
exalted by transcendent sights or sounds. The emi-
nent astronomer Kepler had this experience when,
viewing the expanse and majesty o£ the universe o£
stars, he inspirationally exclaimed, "O God, I am
thinking Thy thoughts after Thee.”
Much is heard about giving ourselves to service
to the world, but how important is the self that we
are offering ? If we have found our real self the offer
will be worth while, but if we are offering person-
ality alone we shall never set the world afire.
Paul was a great example of an indefatigable
minister. We can hardly conceive the hardships he
endured. He enumerates a few of them in II Corin-
thians 11:24-28: "Of the Jews five times received
I forty stripes save one. Thrice was I beaten with
rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck,
a night and a day have I been in the deep; in jour-
neyings often, />? perils of rivers, perils of rob-
bers, in perils from my countrymen, in perils from
the Gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in the
wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among
false brethren, in labor and travail, in watchings
often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in
cold and nakedness. Besides those things that are
without, there is that which presseth upon me daily,
anxiety for all the churches.”
Paul was a tentmaker. He went from house to
house preaching the gospel. At Troas Paul preached
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in a third-story room for several hours. About mid-
night a young man named Eutychus was overcome
by sleep and fell from a window to the ground and
was taken up dead. Paul went down and resurrected
him, then went back to his preaching and kept it up
until daybreak. A sermon twelve hours long would
appall some ministers and all congregations, but
not Paul.
"It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishment the scroll, '
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.”
To Timothy Paul recommends, "Exercise thyself
unto godliness.” The word "exercise” is derived
from a Greek word having the root meaning of
"gymnastics.” That is, train your mind to think
about God as a force that can be incorporated into
your mind as you incorporate strength into your
body. If your mind is weak and flabby, practice
thinking about God as strong and stable. This will
lift your mind out of its depression and connect you
with a never-failing source of stability and confi-
dence. Thus in order of their importance and neces-
sity take all the attributes of God, such as life, love,
power, wisdom, and incorporate them into the mus-
cles of your mind by exercise.
We are very apt to forget that the mind of man
develops like his muscles, by exercise. The minister
who thinks his education is complete when he leaves
the theological seminary never becomes a great
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teacher of men. So the Christian who thinks he is
saved when he has been “converted” wiil find that
his salvation has just begun. Conversion and “change
of heart” are real experiences, as anyone who has
passed through them will testify, but they are merely
introductory to the new life in Christ. When a per-
son arrives at a certain exalted consciousness through
the exercise of his mind in thinking about God and
His laws, he is lifted above the thoughts of the
world into a heavenly realm. This is the beginning
of his entry into the kingdom of the heavens, which
was the text of many of Jesus’ discourses. When a
man attains this high place in consciousness he is
baptized by the Spirit; that is, his mind and even his
body are suffused with spiritual essences, and he
begins the process of becoming a new creature in
Christ Jesus. Skeptics and the inexperienced view the
changes in one’s life produced by conversion as
merely an emotional upheaval that will eventually
pass away and leave the subject as he was before.
No one is ever left exactly as he was before the
experience. An effect has been produced on the
soul structure that will never be wholly obliterated,
but it may remain merely a temporary impression
unless it is developed by exercise. This develop-
ment cannot be accomplished by bodily exercise
either. As Paul wisely says, “bodily exercise is prof-
itable for a little; but godliness is profitable for all
things.”
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H ealing by the power of the word did not
originate with Jesus of Nazareth, although
it is from Him that we get our modern in-
: spiration. In every age where man has realized the
perfection of the original essence of Being and has
: spoken forth that realization, the result has been a
restoration of things to their inherent harmony and
order.
Whoever realizes that God is the underlying cre-
ative perfection and that man is His mouthpiece
has laid the foundation for performing miracles of
healing through the power of the word. But in
order to do the miracles he must speak the word
that he knows to be true.
Thousands in every age have caught sight of the
truth of God’s perfect being, but they have not
been sure enough of their ground to go forth and
proclaim it to a waiting world. Jesus of Nazareth
was counted the Saviour of mankind because He
freely proclaimed the truth about God and man. He
not only proclaimed it, but He had faith in the
power of His word to redeem men from the mental
lethargy into which they had fallen.
"And Jesus went about in all Galilee, teaching in
their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the
kingdom, and healing all manner of disease and ail
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manner of sickness among the people.” The method
of Jesus’ healing has always been a theme that many
have learnedly discussed and written about. The
theories have been numerous, but they have nearly
always been theories. The claim that He was the
only Son of God, begotten in a certain manner to do
a miraculous work, is also a theory to him who has
not a clear understanding of what constitutes a son
of God; hence it would be futile to discuss the things
of Spirit with one who has not been quickened by
Spirit.
Whatever these various theories of Jesus’ re-
markable healing power may be, none disputes one
point*. He used words as the vehicle of the healing
potency. He always spoke to the patient ’*as one
having authority.” He had a certain assurance, an
inner conviction, that He was speaking the truth
when He said, ”Thou art made whole”; and the
result of His understanding carried conviction to
the mind of the patient and opened the way for the
"virtue” that went forth from the speaker. Not-
withstanding this very apparent use of words by
Jesus there has been a failure on the part of His
followers to gtasp their vitally important of6ce in
demonstrations. There has always been a belief in
the religious world that there was somewhere a
lost word that when found and spoken would set
all things right. The Jews say this lost word is veiled
in the name "Yahveh" and that its correct pronun-
ciation is no longer known to men. They claim it
was once known to their priesthood, and when it
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was used all the powers of God were manifest and
mighty works were accomplished by it in brief mo-
ments of time.
All are familiar with the "God said” of Genesis
in connection with the creation of the heavens
and the earth.
Here at the very beginning the word is the cre-
ative agent, and John, personifying it, corroborates
this. He says that in the beginning "the Word was
with God” that it was God, and that all things
were made by it, and without it was not anything
made that has been made. The term that John used
and that is translated "Word” in the King James
New Testament has a much deeper significance
than is usually given to it by Bible readers. It
has been assumed by the church that "the Word”
meant the personal Jesus Christ, and it has been so
accepted.
The most thorough Greek scholars and all careful
and honest Scripture authorities tell us that the
Greek term /ogos has no equivalent in the English
language; that it is untranslatable and should have
stood in its original form instead of the accepted
translation, "the Word.”
Even in Greek the term /ogos has an inner mean-
ing that only those of spiritual discernment can
comprehend. Externally it covers both the spoken
word and the underlying reason or valid premise;
both being so intimately connected as to be one. This
John conveys in saying that "the Word was with
God, and the Word was God.” Here is implied a
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distinction in office but a unity in purpose. With
the early Fathers of the Greek Church the divine
Logos had a peculiar significance which only those
who had delved into the innermost of existence
could comprehend.
Philo made the divine Logos the embodiment of
all divine powers and ideas. He distinguished be-
tween the Logos inherent in God, corresponding to
reason in man, and the Logos emanating from God,
corresponding to the spoken word that reveals the
thought. The former contains the ideal world; the
latter is the first-begotten Son of God, the image of
God, the Creator, the preserver, the giver of life
and light, the mediator between God and the world.
It is claimed that Philo wavered between a personal
and an impersonal conception of the Logos, but
leaned more to the impersonal.
Philip Schaff, speaking of the Logos, says:
“Saint John uses Logos (translated Word) four
times as a designation of the divine, pre-existent
person of Christ, through whom the world was
made, and who became incarnate for our salvation
(John 1:1-14; I John 1:1; 5:7, A. V.; Rev. 19:13).
Philo may possibly have suggested the use of the
term (although there is no evidence that John read
a single line of Philo) ; but the idea was derived
from the teaching of Christ, and from the Old
Testament, which makes a distinction between the
hidden and the revealed Being of God. There is
an inherent propriety in this usage in the Greek
language, where Logos is masculine and has the
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double meauing o£ thought and speech. Christ as
to His divine nature bears the same relation to
God as the word bears to the idea. The word gives
shape and form to the idea, and reveals it to the
without. The word is thought expressed; thought is
the inward word. We cannot speak without the
faculty of reason, nor think without words, whether
"uttered or not. The Christ-Logos is the Revealer and
Interpreter of the Hidden Being of God, the utter-
ance, the reflection, the visible image of God, and
the organ of all His manifestations to the world
(John 1:18; Comp. Matt 11:27). The Logos was
one in nature or essence with God, yet personally
distinct from Him, and in closest communion with
Him.”
In plain, everyday language, we would say tliat
Being, the original fount, is an impersonal principle;
but in its work of creation it puts forth the idea that
contains all ideas: the Logos, the Christ, the Son
of God, spiritual man. This idea is the creative
; power, the concrete consciousness formulated by
universal Principle.
It is written of God: "Thou ... art of purer
eyes than to behold evil.” "Are not two sparrows
sold for a penny? and not one of them shall fall
on the ground without your Father.” These pas-
sages seem paradoxical. When we understand that
in the first passage Principle is referred to, and in
the second the Logos or creative Father of Jesus,
then ail is clear. Jesus always called the divine Logos
"Father.” He never referred to it as an abstraction
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but always as a being having intense love and com-
passion for all creation.
So He will become to each one who makes the
conscious connection with Him, We shall realize
that Being is not only principle so far as its inherent
and undeviating laws are concerned, but also person
so far as its relation to each one of us is concerned;
that we as individuals do actually become the focus
of universal Spirit, of the all-pervading and all-wise
Logos, and that through us the universe is formed.
“And then shall they see the Son of man coming
in clouds with great power and glory.” Each one of
us is a son of man, and our glory and power is in the
keeping of the divine Logos.
We come into this power and glorify God just to
the extent that we recognize and use the Logos.
Jesus of Nazareth recognized and used it in its
fullest sense. To Him it was not only an all-pervad-
ing principle of goodness and power but it was very
much more; it was a near and dear Father, a Father
whose interest in His children is greater than that
of any earthly parent.
“If ye then, being evil, know how to give good
gifts unto your children, how much more shall your
Father who is in heaven give good things to them
that ask him?”
We may make little out of the Logos and live in
the shadow of its glory, or we may make much out
of it and live in the sunshine of that glory. Some
ask sparingly and receive in like measure; others
ask largely and receive largely.
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The Logos is the preserver and transmitter o£ the
original spiritual ideas and essences o£ God, It is
the SListainer upon which the universe rests, and all
its creations are spiritually sequential, that is, logical.
We are dependent upon it for every breath we draw.
Its substance and intelligence are at the beck and
call of prince and peasant alike, and in this sense
it becomes the servant o£ all. All mold it into
consciousness in the one and only way — through
thought. Whatever you think about life or sub-
stance, that it becomes to you.
If you think the Logos will heal the sick through
the power of your magnetic hand, you will do your
healing in that way. If you think it will heal tlirough
your silent or spoken word, it will act accordingly.
It will work for the ignorant and the wise, the
wicked and the good, the poor and the rich. It is
yours to use in whatsoever way you will. However
the permanent results you get will be proportioned
to your understanding of its whole nature. To grow
in its grace and be glorified in the ineffable glory of
the everlasting God you must know who it is you
are dealing with.
Herein many are falling short in our day. They
have been taught the manipulation of the Logos in
its healing aspect and they are using it as a new
therapeutic agent. To them it is a cold abstraction,
a principle having intelligence and substance with-
out consciousness. These qualities they handle as
does the potter his clay. Instead of striving to attain
that loving relation to the Father which should
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exist between parent and child, they are virtually
introducing into their business world a new factor
for the attainment of selfish ends. Do not let the icy
hand of such a science grasp yours. Refuse to see the
Father as anything less than the all-compassionate
One who is interested in every act of your life, every
thought you think; who has numbered even the hairs
of your head. This is our God, the Most High Good,
which dwells in our heart and soul and flames up
into our mind with all the power of cleansing, heal-
ing, and uplifting. To this dear Father nothing is
small, nothing is great. He does not ignore His
creation; He does not stand afar off and view with
the cold, critical eye of a connoisseur. His heart
throbs with compassion; He sheds upon us the holy
peace of His presence in the turmoil of sense, and
we joyously exclaim, “Though all else fail me, in
Thee I find rest.”
Yet we must attain the full stature of the God-
man. We must ultimately understand that the Father
cannot be circumscribed by any human idea of Him
or of what He should do for us. We must know
that there is only good and that the word of good is
the only permanently healing word. So long as we
believe that the Father might heal at one time and
not at another, that He might be induced to give
us His healing Spirit under certain circumstances and
not under others, we are misjudging His nature.
If there is ever any limit to the healing power of
the word, it is of our own manufacture.
The healing word is not a special creation to meet
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an emergenqr. It is not a patent medicine prepared
to cure specific diseases. The idea that it is a healing
word at all originates in our limited notion that
there is something that needs healing.
God is the supreme perfection; the Word is like
unto that perfection. All its creations are perfect.
It takes cognhance of the perfect only. When we
realize this perfection and speak the words of Truth
from that plane of understanding, the Word goes
forth and establishes that which is. It does not heal
anything — ^in its perfection there is nothing to heal.
Its office is to behold the perfection of its Being;
and as we do the works of the Father, we behold
and restore that which is and always was perfect.
Thus he who realizes most thoroughly that God is
the supreme perfection and that in Him can be no
imperfection, and speaks forth that realization witli
conviction, will cause all things to arrange them-
selves in divine order.
This is being daily and hourly demonstrated by
the faithful all over the land, thus proving true the
nature of the Logos or Word of God. The meaning
of the word logos is speech based upon reason. If
the reasonable premise that God is the omnipresent
God is well grounded in you, you cannot speak
anything but healing and uplifting words. Your
words must be for the healing of the nations, be-
cause they are true words flowing forth from a
source in which Truth has no opposite.
If you believe that both good and evil conditions
can be brought forth from this divine Logos, that
IHE HEALING WORD
both sweet and bitter waters can flow forth from
tiie same spring, then your healing will be mixed.
The spring is pure, and by letting your mind be an
open way for its outpouring, you permit it to remain
in its original purity and to cleanse all in whom
you quicken it. If however you stop the flow here
and there by an idea of limitation, by an idea of im-
perfection in the fount or in him upon whom the
fount is being poured, you cut off its free currents
to that extent.
Do not construe this to mean that you can pol-
lute the stream by your thinking. This cannot be
done; you simply refuse to let its purity come forth in
its fullness. Like the lens that refracts the sunlight,
you receive some rays that you do not throw upon the
screen. The white light of Spirit is poured upon you,;
and your idea of limitation in a given direction
makes you opaque to some of its colors. \
You are nothing less than a child of God, and to
you is intrusted the creative power. When you realize
this you can go forth forgiving men their sins as you
have forgiven your own.
The word of God is spoken through the Son of
man. You are a son of man, and it is your duty to
be about your Father’s business, healing the sick,
casting out demons, raising the dead, forgiving the
sinful, and spreading the gospel of a living God.
But the "word is very nigh unto thee, in thy
mouth.” Speak it forth and demonstrate, as did
Jesus, that "the Son of man hath authority on earth
to forgive sins.” What is sin? Is it anything other
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than an erroneous way of attaining happiness? God
is happy, and it is a state natural to us all or we
would not strive for it. There must also be a way to
reach it. If we have not reached it by the way we
have followed, we have but to turn about and seek
another way. Repenting is turning about, letting go
of the sense way. As soon as we let go and recog-
nize that the way of Spirit is the way of pleasant-
ness, we have been forgiven our sins. The mental
attitude has invited the word of God, and it flows
forth into our consciousness and erases the erroneous
concepts.
Anyone can speak true words and thus be the
agent of God in forgiving sin. The little child may
: do it; the ignorant disciple may do it. The power
does not inhere in the individual; the cleansing is
through the word. "Already ye are clean because
; of the word which I have spoken unto you.”
• This living Word of God is a spiritual principle.
; It is omnipresent, like the air we breathe.
One small grain of it is more powerful than many
tons of dynamite. It is the "assurance of things
hoped for” that will remove mountains. It is very
nigh unto you, even "in thy mouth,” as a wise one
said. Its premise is that God is good and tliat His
; offspring is like unto Him. You have only to recog-
; nize this premise in all that you think and do and
then speak it forth to get the results promised. There
is no respect of persons in God; you are as near the
Father as Jesus was if you recognize the principle
and speak the tme word always.
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PRAYER TREATMENTS
I no longer accuse myself and
others of sin and evil. Forgiving,
I am forgiven and healed.
I daily praise the invisible good
that is bringing the ships of pros-
perity to my harbor.
HOW PRAYER HEALING IS DONE
F rom a study of the foregoing lessons, you
should be convinced that man and the universe
are under the creative direction of a supreme
being, name it what you will, and that man needs
but to conform to the laws of creative Mind in order I
to be healthy, happy, and wise. It logically occurs
to you that all healing methods, whether applied to
self or to others, consists in establishing the unity
of the individual and the universal consciousness.
No man heals himself or another; the supreme
Mind does the work. “The Father abiding in me
does his works,” said Jesus. This is the testimony
of all the truly wise.
The first move in all healing is a recognition on
the part of the healer and on the part of the patient
that God is present as an all-powerful mind, equal
to the healing of every disease, no matter how bad
it may appear. “With God all things are possible.” I
The best way to establish unity with the Father- |
Mind is by prayer. “God is Spirit,” and He has a [
kingdom or ruling center in every soul. Do not look |
up or out for God, but “pray to thy Father who is
in secret [silently within your own soul}, and thy
Father who seeth in secret shall recompense thee.”
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Many healers use the Lord’s Prayer at the beginning
of every treatment. Talk to the Father as if He were
an entity present within you. He is visible to your
soul, and when you have attained the particular
inner confidence called faith, you will realize His
presence as clearly as you realize visible things.
When you have stilled the outer senses and have
become quiet, you are in the mental realm where
thoughts are obedient to the Word. Error thoughts
must be told to go, and true thoughts must be called
■ to take their proper place.
Mental causes are so complex that it is impossible
to point out in all cases the specific thought that
causes a certain disease; but twelve fundamental
mind activities lie at the base of all existence, and
when any one of these is contacted, all the others
respond.
Nearly all sick people lack vital force, hence the
life treatment is good for all. Hate, anger, jealousy,
malice, and the like are almost universal in human
consciousness, and a treatment for love will prove
a healing balm for all.
• Fear of poverty burdens most people, and the
, prosperity treatment will be effective. Do not be
; afraid to use the statements in healing as a whole
or in part; they will always help and never hurt
anyone. Remember that the object of all treatment
!• is to raise the mind to the Christ consciousness,
; through which all true healing is accomplished.
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SAMPLE PRAYER TREATMENTS
Fear, anxiety, worry, dread, and suspense — these
thoughts cause the mind to become tense, thus shut-
ting out the great helper, the Spirit o£ truth. Say
silently:
I am now free from fear, anxiety, worry, dread,
and suspense. 1 have faith in Hhy Holy Spirit,
\ and I trust Thee to protect me, to provide for
me, and to bring all my affairs into divine order.
Nervousness
The mind sends its messages along the nerves;
the nerves, forming a network of communication
with the brain, get into a chronic crosscurrented
condition from the presence of repeated anxious,
worried, fearful thoughts, and the many forms of
nervousness result. This idea of nervousness must
be specifically denied and the truth affirmed. Say
silently:
I I am not subject to any kind of nervousness. M.y
\ nerves are harmonized, peaceful, and poised in
■ Spirit and in Truth.
Note: Deny the mental cause first; then the phys-
ical appearance. Nervousness is produced by worry,
anxiety, and the like. These mental conditions
should be healed first; then the secondary state
which they have produced in the body must be
denied and dissolved, and the perfect condition
affirmed.
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Colds, Grippe, and the Influenzas
Affirm:
Spirit is not subject to heut or cold. 1 am Spirit.
I am the positive force of Being, and 1 put out
of my consciousness all negative thoughts. I do
not believe in the thing called a cold, nor do
I admit for a moment that it has any power over
me. I am Spirit, free-flowing life, and my cir-
culation is equalized in God.
Stomach Troubles
Prayer:
My understaftding is established in Spirit. I
know the relation between mind and body, be-
tween thought and substance. I agree with what
1 eat, and what I eat agrees with me. I am at
peace with all men and all things. 1 do not re-
sist or antagonize anybody or anything. My
stomach is strong, wise, and energetic, and 1
always think and speak of it as in every way
capable of doing the work given it to do. 1 do
not impose upon my stomach by overloading it.
I am guided by divine wisdom in eating and
drinking, and I follow its dictates instead of the
sense appetites. 1 am no longer anxious about
tvhat l shall eat or what 1 shall drink. / am not
hurried or worried, but after each meal I rest
from all the cares of life, and I give my stomach
opportunity to do its perfect work under the
divine law.
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All Liver Troubles
Prayer:
I am not misjudged, nor do I misjudge others. I
do not criticize or condemn. I do not hold bitter,
revengeful thoughts against others. 1 do not
think that 1 have been unjustly treated. God-
Mind is my supreme arbiter, and I rest all
judgment in the divine law of justice. The swift
energy of Spirit now penetrates and permeates
every atom of my liver, and it is free to do its
perfect work.
Kidney, Bladder, and Urinary
Disorders
Prayer:
God is the strength of my life. I do not believe
in exhaustion of strength. Strength is always
present in -supreme completeness, and I am eter-
nally strong. Spirit is the strength of my loins,
and my back is free from all thought of burdens.
My life is divinely ordered, and I am not afraid
of weakness, old age, or death. All the issues of
my life are from God, and He is a well of living
water within me.
Lustful passions no longer separate me from the
pure, spiritual life. My life is lifted up by the
Christ mind, and I am resurrected from the
dead. My life is hid with Christ in God.
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All Throat Affecteons
Prayer:
All power is given to me, in heaven ( mind ) and
in earth (body). Dominion, control, and mas-
tery are mine by diving right, and I refuse to
believe in failure or discouragement.
1 am free, and the inspiration of Spirit is poured
into my soul. I am quickened by Spirit, and the
flesh is obedient. 1 rejoice and am glad because
the joy of Christ is mine. 1 am filled with Spirit
energy, and every cell in my organism is alight
with God. I am the resurrection and the life.
SIX-DAY PRAYER TREATMENTS
It is found that the mind establishes a permanent
consciousness through six steps or stages, called in
Genesis "days.”
First, the mind perceives and affirms Truth to be
a universal principle. Secondly, faith in the working
power of Truth is born in consciousness. Thirdly,
Truth takes definite form in mind. Fourthly, the will
carries Truth into acts. Fifthly, discrimination is
quickened and the diffierence between Truth and
error is discerned. Sixthly, every thought and word
is expressed in harmony with Truth.
The seventh "day” represents a peaceful confi-
dence and rest in the fulfillment of the divine law.
By the use of these denials and affirmations for
one week a new and more orderly basis of thought
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is established in mind, and the whole man is har-
moni2ed and vitalized. This process often .heals
obstinate cases, and the six-day course is recom-
mended in conjunction with the special prayers.
Make your denials as if you were gently sweeping
away cobwebs, and make your affirmations in a
strong, bold, vehement, positive attitude of mind.
Each day’s treatment, and the whole course of
treatments if necessary, is to be repeated over and
over until it manifests its living presence and potenq?’
in consciousness.
If you desire to help a patient who will not try
or who cannot himself successfully bring his mind
into harmonious relations with Principle, think of
this person when you hold the daily thought, and
Spirit will cause your word to be manifested both
in you and in him.
Invocation
To precede each day’s treatment
I acknowledge Thy presence and power, 0
blessed Spirit; in Thy divine wisdom now erase
my mortal limitations, and from Thy pure sub-
stance of love bring into manifestation my
world, according to Thy perfect law.
Monday
Deny:
1 am no longer f oolish or ignorant, and the fool-
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ishness and the ignorance of ancestry can no
longer he visited upon me.
1 am free from the foolishness and the ignorance
of the race and of those with whom I associate.
The foolishness and the ignorance that may have
been treasured up by my own understanding are
now erased.
Affirm:
I am wise with the wisdom of infinite Mind,
and 1 have knowledge of all things. 1 know that
I am pure intelligence, and 1 hereby claim my
divine right to light, life, and liberty in all
goodness, wisdom, love, and purity. Let the light
of wisdom appear and the ignorance of human
thought vanish.
Tuesday
Deny:
I deny the belief that I have inherited disease,
sicknesSj ignorance, or any mental limitations
whatsoever. I deny all belief in evil; for God
made all that really is and pronounced it good.
Therefore no such deception as belief in evil
can darken my clear understanding of Truth.
Those with whom I associate can no longer de-
ceive me with their words of consideration and
sympathy. 1 can no longer deceive myself with
such weakness.
Perish from my world these silly beliefs of
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darkened ignorance. I am now free from them
all, and by my powerful word I hereby destroy
them wholly.
Affirm:
: God^s life is my life, and 1 vibrate with harmony
and wholeness. 1 am free with the knowledge
that all is good; I am therefore perfectly whole
and well.
Wednesday
Deny:
1 deny the belief that 1 am a child of the flesh
and must safer for the sins of my forefathers
^^unto the third and fourth generations^ Perish
all such ignorant beliefs.
I deny that I inherited from my ancestors lustful
passions and sensual appetites.
I deny the belief that the race can constrain me
to yield to lustful passions and sensual appetites.
I deny the belief that those with whom 1 asso-
ciate can constrain me to yield to lustful passions
Of sensual appetites. 1 deny my own ignorant
belief in such erroneous ideas.
Affirm:
God is Spirit and 1, the divine image, am Spirit.
1 am born of God. God is too pure to behold
iniquity, and I am therefore pure being, without
a tinge of lust or passion.
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Thursday
Deny:
I deny that the sins and omissions of my an-
cestors can influence me in any way. Selfishness,
envy, malice, jealousy, pride, avarice, arrogance,
cruelty, hypocrisy, ^obstinacy, and revenge are no
part of my present understanding, and 1 deny
all such beliefs in the race, in those with whom
1 associate, and in my own mind.
Affirm;
1 am at peace with all mankind. I truly and un-
selfishly love all men and women. / now ac-
knowledge the perfect law of justice and equal-
ity. I know that ^^God is no respecter of per-
sons,^’ and that every man and woman is my
equal in the sight of the Father.
I do love my neighbor as myself, and I will do
to others as 1 would have them do to me.
Friday
Deny:
I deny that 1 have inherited the consequences of
fear from my ancestors, or that the race can con-
strain me to accept its fears. 'The fears of those
with luhom I associate can no longer hold me in
sickness or in want, and my own understanding
is now fully rid of these illusions.
There is not and cannot hereafter be any fear in
or about my bold world.
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Affirm:
I am brave and bold with the knowledge that 1
am Spirit and therefore not subject to any op-
posing power.
Plenty and prosperity are mine by inheritance
from God, and by my steady, persistent word 1
now bring them into manifestation.
Saturday
Deny:
I deny that 1 inherit any belief that in any way
limits me in health, virtue, intelligence, or
power to do good.
Those with whom 1 associate can no longer
make me believe that 1 am a poor worm of the
dust. The race belief that nature dominates
man no longer holds me in bondage, and I am
now free from every belief that might in any
way interfere with my perfect expression of
health, wealth, peace, prosperity, and perfection
in every department of life.
1 now, in the sight of Almighty God, unfor-
mulate and destroy by my all-powerful word
every foolish and ignorant assumption that
might impede my march to perfection. My word
is the measure of my power. I have spoken, and
it shall be so.
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Affirm:
I am unlimited in my power, and I have increas-
ing health, strength, life, love, wisdom, bold-
ness, freedom, charity, and meekness now and
forever.
1 am now in harmony with the Father and
stronger than any mortal law. I know my birth-
right in pure Being, and 1 boldly assert my per-
fect freedom. In this knowledge I am enduring,
pure, peaceful, and happy.
1 am dignified and definite yet meek and lowly
in all that I think and do.
1 am one with and I now fully manifest vig-
orous life, wisdom, and spiritual understanding.
1 am one with and 1 now fully manifest love,
charity, justice, kindness, and generosity.
I am one with and I now fully manifest infinite
goodness and mercy.
Peace flows like a river through my mind, and 1
thank thee, O God, that I am one with Thee!
Sunday
still, and know that I am God!*
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QUESTIONS
QUESTIONS
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I By Charles and Cora Vtllmore
The God to Whom We Tray
I 1. How is the spiritual character built?
I 2. Explain *1 go to prepare a place for you.”
I 3. How are we born anew through Christ?
4. How does man awaken the divine nature
within him and bring about his union with God ?
True Prayer
1. What is true prayer?
2. How does one enter the silence ?
3. How are prayers fulfilled?
4. Why does God need man as an avenue of
expression.
Intellectual Silence and Spiritual Silence
1. Why do we ask in the name of Jesus Christ?
I 2. Does salvation come by accepting Jesus as
I one’s Saviour? Explain.
I 3. Did Jesus make individual effort unnecessary ?
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4. What is intellectual silence?
5. What is spiritual silence?
Healing through the Prayer of Palth
1. How is faith healing done?
2. How does man develop a deeper faith?
3. What is attention ?
4. What is concentration?
Prosperity through Prayer
1. Give your own interpretation of the story of
Elisha and the oil.
2. Give the metaphysical interpretation of
Elisha, the widow, and the oil.
3. Why is praise so beneficial ?
4. Why is daily prayer essential ?
Contacting Spiritual Substance
1 . What is Spirit substance ?
2. How does man appropriate and manifest the
invisible substance?
3. How do we gain control of Spirit substance?
4. Why are prosperity demonstrations delayed?
Joyous Prayer
1. How can a metaphysician contact the undis-
covered quantities in space
2. How is the CJirist consciousness attained?
What is the result?
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QUESTIONS
3. Expiain the ejSfect of joy on the mind, body,
and affairs.
4. Why must we pray with a purpose?
How to Handle the Psychic Forces of
Consciotisness
1. What is the only way to handle the psychic
forces ?
2. What are the three elements of the soul, and
what is comprised in each?
3. What effect does the psydiic realm have on -
the emotional nature?
4. What happens to souls who pass on ?
5. Explain how Spirit gives messages in dreams
and visions.
6. How is man being restored to the heavenly
kingdom ?
Spiritual Unfoldment Makes Man Master
1. Is man the equal of God?
2. How does man develop his innate abilities ?
3. How did Jesus become a master?
4. Why is the unfoldment of love so important
in gaining spiritual mastery?
Fulfillment
1. What is the "light of the world"?
2. How did the cmcifixion of Jesus save us from
sin, sickness, and death?
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3. 'W!^hat is the grand fulfillment?
4. Explain the difierence between "life” and
''blood.”
Unfoldment
1 . What was the evolution of Jesus ?
2. What is your understanding of the Logos ?
3. How is the body transformed ?
4. How do we partake of the Holy Communion ?
Thought Images
1. What are thought images?
2 . How do we pro j ect thought ?
3. Can man have a perfect character? How?
4. Are there short cuts into the kingdom of the
heavens?
The Spoken Word
1. Explain the process of creative thought.
2. How does the soul overcome death?
3. What is your understanding of the "ether”?
4. How do we receive a life transfusion?
Thou Shalt Decree
1. What is tlie effect of man’s words?
2. Does an inferiority complex prevent one from
expressing sonship?
3. Why do the organs of the body respond to our
decrees?
4. Amplify Dr. Alexis Carrel’s statement "The
only thing that keeps men from living forever is the
possession of a brain and nervous system.”
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QUESTIONS
Be Strong in the Lord
1. How do we become strong in the Lord?
2 . What was Jesus’ instruction regarding prayer ?
3. Name some helps to entering the silence.
4. Explain the effect of words of praise and
failure.
Bace to Face with God
1. Why should we speak direct to God?
2. How can we become established in the con-
sciousness of oneness with God?
3. Explain the parable of the prodigal son.
4. Why must we study the life of Jesus Christ ?
Not Magic hut Law
1. Where is the "kingdom of God” ?
2. Was Jesus the only Son of God? Explain.
3. How do we attain the consciousness of eternal
life ?
4. Why should we look to God as our resource ?
Spiritual Soul Therapy
1. What is Spirit psychoanalysis?
2. What determines the character of our soul ?
3. Explain the effect of praise on the individual.
4. Does the mental attitude govern spiritual
demonstration?
Health and Prosperity
1. How can Spirit manifest itself?
2. How is the immortal body formed?
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3. Where is the substance of God?
4. Can we manipulate substance as Jesus did?
Explain fully.
Thoughts Are Things
1 . What are thoughts ?
2. Compare the "ether” of science with the Gar-
den of Eden and the "kingdom of the heavens” of
Jesus.
3. Do you agree with Professor Jeans’ statement
that we live in a universe of waves ?
4. How does man form his world?
5. Is there a panacea for the present world con-
ditions ?
The S'upermind
1. Do all kinds of healers use the same force?
Why?
2. What is heaven?
3. What is hell?
4. How did Jesus save us from destructive, dis-
cordant conditions ?
5. Why do we pray in the name of Jesus Christ?
Cheerfulness Heals
1. How does cheerfulness aid healing?
2 . Why does a cheerful attitude bring prosperity ?
3. Why is proper diet conducive to health?
4. Why do we bless our money and affairs ?
Love Harmonizes
1. How does love adjust man’s discords?
QUESTIONS
2. Explain the law of gravitation.
3. How are great souls developed?
4. Why did Jesus use scientific methods?
Casting Out Fear
1. What is the effect of fear on the body?
2 . How do we cast out fear ?
3. How do we fulfill the law of our being?
4. What does perfect love mean to you?
Spiritual Hearing
1. How do we hear?
2. Can everyone hear with the "inner ear"? Ex-
plain.
3. Is excessive meditation advisable? Why not?
4. Explain the importance of spiritual receptivity.
Light of Life
1 . What is the ' 'true light’ ’ ?
2. Why have the discoveries of modern science
about light failed to aid man in his spiritual de-
velopment ?
3. Are light and intelligence one? Explain.
4. What should be the attitude of Truth students
in regard to physical science?
Thought Substance
1. How are our prayers answered ?
2. Does asking alone bring abundance into mani-
festation?
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3. What is the Spirit of truth?
4. In what way are the laws of hygiene and diet
beneficial?
Intensified Zeal
1. Explain the office of the faculty of 2:eal.
2. What is the cause of "old age” ?
3. How did Jesus overcome greed?
4. How do we lay up treasures in the heavens?
The Unreality of Error
1. Why is error unreal ?
2. What is the object of man’s existence?
3. How is the truth revealed to us ?
4. What is matter?
f oy Radiates Health
1, Explain the effect of laughter and joy on
health,
2. Where did Solomon turn for judgment?
3- How is happiness attained?
4. How do we jfind lasting peace?
"Selahr
1 . What does "selah” mean?
2. Why is "God first” the only way to the con-
sciousness of Truth ?
3. How does man demonstrate prosperity?
4. What is the meaning of the word "Jehovah” ?
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QUESTIONS
SpintuaUzing the Intellect
1. How many minds are there? Explain.
2. How do we unify all our forces?
3. Explain the difference between the blessings
bestowed by Isaac on Jacob and Esau.
4. What is the intellectual man?
5. What is the proper relationship between the
mind and the heart ? The mind and the body?
6. Explain the principle of tithing.
The Sevenfold Cleansing
1 . Why is humility necessary in spiritual healing ?
2. Why must personal egotism be overcome?
3 . N ame two important steps in spiritual healing.
4. What part did Elisha have in the healing of
Naaman ?
Prayer and Faith
1. Define prayer in your own words.
2. Wliat does faith mean to you ?
3. Why did Paul admonish us to pray without
ceasing?
4. What is meant by true spiritual baptism ?
The Healing Word
1. Does the "word” have power to heal? Why?
2. Wliat is the "only Son of God” ?
3. What does mean?
4. Can man forgive sin? How?
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' Publisher's ^Announcement
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Beginning Again, by Prank B. Whitney
Both Riches and Honor, by Annie Eix Militz
Christ Enthroned in Man, by Cora Fillmore
Christian Healing, by Charles Fillmore
Effectual Prayer, by Prances W. Foulks
God a Present Help, by H. Emilie Cady
God Is the Answer, by Dana Gatlin
Have We Lived Before? by Ernest C. Wilson
How I Used Truth, by H. Emilie Cady
Jesus Christ Heals, by Charles Fillmore
Know Thyself, by Richard Lynch
Lessons in Truth, by H. Emilie Cady
Letters of Myrtle Fillmore
Lovingly in the Hands of the Father, by Evelyn Whitell
Mightier than Circumstance, by Frank B. Whitney
Mysteries of Genesis, by Charles Fillmore
Mysteries of John, by Charles Fillmore
New Ways to Solve Old Problems, by Lowell Fillmore
Prosperity, by Charles Fillmore
Prosperity’s Ten Commandments, by Georgiana Tree West
The Great Physician, by Ernest C. Wilson
The Sunlit Way, by Ernest C. Wilson
Talks on Truth, by Charles Fillmore
Truth Ideas of an M. D., by Dr. C. O. Southard
The Twelve Powers of Man, by Charles Fillmore
SffnAx AkbYovI, by Imelda OctaviaShanklin
Whatsoever Ye Shall Ask, by Zelia M. Walters
Working with God, by Gardner Hunting
You and Your Child, by Zelia M. Walters
You Can Be Healed, by Clara Palmer
These books cover so many subjects of general and vital interest
that among them you are sure to find one that meets a need of your
own or that of a friend. Beautifully bound, gilt stamped, these lovely
Unity books are priced at |1 each.
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